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The Minister of Labor, Ángel Custodio Cabrera, explained on Tuesday the reason why the Government considers that the adjustment of the minimum wage by 2021 yes it will be higher than a million pesos.
In context: ‘With 3.5% increase in minimum wage, get ready for increases in January’).
And it is that although the SMLMV will reach 908,526 pesos next year, if the transportation aid is added, of 106,454 pesos, the salary will remain at 1,014,980 pesos.
According to Minister Cabrera, he transportation allowance it is part of the real income of the worker, since this is considered, for all purposes, a benefit income, that is, a sum in unemployment and premiums, among other social benefits.
“The President of the Republic always spoke that Colombian workers should have an income of more than one million pesos. In the year 2021 they will. For all purposes, transportation assistance is considered a benefit income, that is, for unemployment, premiums and other types of social benefits. Therefore when we speak of more than a million pesos it is a real income of the worker ”, explained the minister.
(As well: ‘This is the decree that increases the minimum wage by 3.5% for 2021’)
The head of the Labor Ministry indicated that the increase in the minimum wage has been a priority of the Duque Government and is the highest in real terms in the last 35 years.
(Further: ‘Petty and generous’, the reactions to the increase of the minimum’).
“It means 7 percent of real income in three years of government. That had never happened if we look at the entire table since 1985, “he said.
President Iván Duque has been criticized for stating that this increase exceeds for the first time in the history of Colombia a minimum wage above one million pesos.
