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During a Virtual Economic Forum led by the Congress of the Republic, the Vice President of Legal Affairs of the National Association of Entrepreneurs of Colombia (Andi), Alberto Echavarría, He proposed that in order to cushion the economic blows that COVID-19 has left, the June premium payment should be paid in December.
“All of these measures aim to keep jobs. Deferring, then, the payment of the service premium for 180 days is one of them. It is not that workers ‘rights are taken away, but they can accept that payments be deferred to allow companies’ cash flows to spread over time and to preserve jobs, “said Echavarría.
This is because to contain and mitigate the effects of the coronvirus, many governments have had to implement preventive isolation that As a secondary effect it has affected the economies and the Colombian has not been the exception.
Remember, that according to Colombian labor law Every six months, companies must pay their workers a service premium.
For his part, the Minister of Labor, Ángel Custodio Cabrera, indicated that the Government will not issue any decree for the companies assume that they can postpone the payment of the legal premium for next June, since this is an acquired right of the workers.
For Minister Cabrera, there are companies that have the capacity to make this payment. However for those who cannot, there must be a consensus between the worker and the employer.
