Government Signs Social Summit and Lobbyists After Legislative Setback to Labor Reform

Bruce Mac Master, president of ANDI, said this Friday in Barranquilla that the organization is fully committed to supporting the revived Labor Reform. "What I'm doing is calling on everyone to join us so we can pass a reform that everyone feels comfortable with," he said. He stated that the last message they had sent regarding the labor reform that was making its way through Congress was the decision they had expressed to the government to sit d…

The Minister of Labor, Antonio Sanguino, announced that the National Government has called open lobbyists in all the municipalities of the country in response to the recent collapse of the popular consultation in the Senate of the Republic. “The president has summoned lobbyists in all the municipalities and throughout the national territory. The first Cabildo is going to happen here in the Colombian Caribbean on Monday 19, also with the presence…

Minister of Labor Antonio Sanguino. Photo: Presidency. Labor Minister Antonio Sanguino referred this Thursday to the implications of the collapse of the popular consultation that the government had proposed as a mechanism to advance labor reform, after it did not prosper in Congress. In an interview with Caracol Radio, the head of the portfolio described the voting process as irregular and expressed serious concerns about the legitimacy of the p…