Colombia: reformas con sesgo antilaboral, derechos laborales en vía de extinción

Abstract

Colombia is characterized by a structural anti-labor policy, historically the adopted economic model has ignored and persecuted workers' organizations, has not developed a formal employment structure and is distinguished by marginal democracy in decisions affecting the world of work. This structural model deepened in the 21st century, while in other countries of the continent measures were taken to impede the advance of flexible labor standards and increased the participation of workers' organizations, Colombia continues in the path of anti-labor policies, resulting in the early decades of the 21st century in a precarious and marginal share of labor in the fruits of economic growth. This model remained anti-labor in not only a lack of participation in economic life but also in the legal system itself, since, added to the structural failure of labor rights and the reform of the 1990s, the governments of the 21st century carried out a series of reforms with flexible and precarious nature. Therefore, the article wants to demonstrate the disruption of the Colombian labor market, reinforced by the two labor reforms of the last decades, together with the small reforms that transformed the social security system, the structure of taxation characterized as anti-labor, to discuss some proposals that serve to improve the conditions of the working population in a process of negotiation that put an end to a historical war and that allows to show the reality of our country.

KEYWORDS: Labor reform. Colombia. Job. Precariousness.