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For the businessmen, the initiative, which last week received the endorsement of the congressmen in the second debate, does not contribute at all in the reestablishment of new jobs during the crisis facing the country.
In addition, Andi considers that this project will reduce the workload from 48 to 40 hours per week the only thing it achieves is to make labor more expensive and affect the competitiveness of entrepreneurs in Colombia.
The president of Andi, Bruce Mac Master, also argued that the objective at this time of the economy should be to reduce unemployment, something that will not happen with the project that is pending in Congress and that could represent a benefit for workers.
The guild leader told The W to reduce the working hours will make job creation more expensive and will affect sectors such as commerce, bars and restaurants.
Working hours in Colombia would go from 48 to 40 hours
According to Mac Master, the reduction in working hours will also translate into an additional cost for companies in the country. According to calculations by that entity, if 8 hours are removed from the working day, employers will have to assuming an average weekly cost of 85,000 pesos per person, cites that same medium.
The project, which would be approved in the coming weeks, is the idea of former president Álvaro Uribe, and he intends that, despite the reduction in working hours, the salary of employees is not affected. Another purpose is that Colombians have more free time to share with their family.
The initiative has already passed its first filter in the Senate and could become a reality in a few months.
This initiative is also part of the ideas proposed by Uribe, who this weekend called for an urgent tax reform to be carried out in Colombia, prior to the 2022 elections.
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