Colombia raises minimum wage by 3.4%
The Colombian government issued a decree raising the country’s minimum wage by 3.4 percent after employers and unions weren’t able to find a compromise. The 3.4% or increase means the…
The Colombian government issued a decree raising the country’s minimum wage by 3.4 percent after employers and unions weren’t able to find a compromise. The 3.4% or increase means the…
Colombia’s urban unemployment rate, traditionally the main measurement of joblessness in the country, declined in November as faster economic growth appears to be fueling job creation. Colombia’s urban unemployment rate…
Colombian employers and labor unions were not able to reach an agreement on the height of the country’s minimum wage. The government will now have to decide how much minimum…
Colombia’s Vice President Angelino Garzon on Monday called the country’s employers’ proposal to raise minimum wage with three per cent “very low and unfair.” Instead, the Vice President supported the…
The number of miners killed at work in 2010 tripled compared to the year before, the country’s mining authority announced on Thursday. According to government mining agency Geominas, 155 miners…
At COP515,000 pesos per month or roughly $278, the Colombian minimum wage is the second highest in all of Latin America in terms of GDP per capita. At first glance,…
Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon on Monday expressed his support for a commission to monitor human rights and environmental issues as part of the free trade agreement between the European…
The Constitutional Court ruled that people who engage in prostitution within the law have the same rights as any worker,reported Semana on Monday. After reviewing the case of a woman…
Former Vice President Francisco Santos and former presidential adviser Jose Obdulio Gaviria are being sued by three trade unions over defamatory statements linking the unions to terrorism. The case, to…