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President Iván Duque has come under fire for his claim to have fulfilled a campaign promise by decreeing an increase in the minimum wage that, According to his accounts, for the first time in the history of Colombia it exceeds one million pesos.
The correction has been made both in the media and on social networks.
For example, former minister Cecilia López Montaño told him: “Please, President!
@IvanDuque don’t fool Colombians anymore! The new minimum wage is not a million pesos but 908,526 pesos ”.
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Please president @IvanDuque: don’t fool the Colombians anymore! The new minimum wage is not one million pesos but 908,526 pesos. How dare you add the transportation allowance that is not part of the salary? He did not fulfill neither that nor other campaign promises.
– Cecilia Lopez Montaño (@CeciliaLopezM) December 29, 2020
López even reproached him: “How dare you add the transportation allowance that is not part of the salary? He did not fulfill neither that nor other campaign promises ”.
Along the same lines, Antonio Sanguino, senator of the Alianza Verde party, called it “ruin” for the Government to say that the minimum wage exceeded one million pesos.
“The Pdte @IvanDuque is lying. To emphasize that the minimum wage is one million pesos, adding the transportation subsidy, is ruin. The subsidy is not part of the salary, it is not added. Pdte: it is 908,526 pesos. Not even his campaign slogan he complied: “Less taxes plus minimum wage,” he trilled.
The Pdte @IvanDuque lies. Highlight that the minimum wage is one million pesos, adding the transportation subsidy, is mean. The subsidy is not part of salary, it is not added. Pdte: they are 908,526 pesos.
Not even his campaign slogan fulfilled: “Less taxes plus minimum wage”
– Antonio Sanguino Senator (@AntonioSanguino) December 29, 2020
The representative of the same party, Katherine Miranda, said: “I do not know what is more outrageous. Very angry face. If the miserable increase in the minimum wage or that they believe us idiots saying that they exceeded one million pesos by adding transportation assistance.”
I don’t know what is more outrageous 😡
If the miserable increase in the minimum wage or that they believe us idiots saying that they exceeded one million pesos by adding transportation assistance.
– Katherine Miranda (@MirandaBogota) December 29, 2020
The discussion also took place on the stations. Thus, for example, when the Minister of Labor, Ángel Custodio Cabrera, also claimed in Snail Radio what “the new minimum was 1,014,980, adding the transport aid ”, a reporter made a precision.
It is about the journalist Melquisedec Torres who told him that transportation assistance does not constitute wages in Colombia.
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“Minister, allow me to go back to the transportation assistance and the figure of the million pesos that you promote, there is a technical detail and there is a legal detail: the transportation assistance is not part of the salary factor, therefore it cannot be said that the salary in Colombia already exceeds one million pesos, ”Torres told the Minister of Labor.
In line with his explanation, he argued that the minimum wage is actually 908,526 pesos and not 1,014,980 as the National Government tries to show.
Immediately afterwards, the journalist told the minister that the transportation aid is at 106,454 pesos, but that “the subsidy cannot be tied because it is not a salary factor.”
In his defense, Minister Cabrera replied: “Well, then we are talking about the worker’s income exceeding one million pesos.”
So we talk that the worker’s income exceeds one million pesos
The topic has been a trend on social networks. To quote, one case. The user Julián Ortiz Ortiz also wrote on his social networks:
“The transport assistance fulfills the purpose of reimbursing the expenses that the worker incurs to travel to his place of work. It does NOT constitute a salary since the purpose of the salary is to pay for the services rendered ”.
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For his part, Diógenes Orjuela, president of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, CUT, described the 3.5% increase in the minimum wage as “ridiculous” and “humiliating”.
The workers’ leader assured in the microphones of The W He pointed out that “neither the Government nor the businessmen ever showed a real interest in responding to this fundamental problem for economic reactivation.
The economic newspaper Briefcase wrote: After employers and workers did not reach an agreement on the salary adjustment for workers in 2021, the Government defined the increase in the minimum wage in Colombia at 3.5%, which represents an increase of $ 30,723 from $ 877,803 in 2020 to $ 908,526 in 2021.
“In this way, workers will receive a payment of $ 30,284 for a day of work, that is, a salary per hour worked of $ 3,785 pesos,” said this specialized newspaper.
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