Colombia

Author: Angélica Carrión On 19 February 2020, by ruling C-068, the Constitutional Court declared the unenforceability of article 244 of Law 1955 of 2019, which unified the Basic Contribution Income (BCI) for self-employed workers with and without a contract for the provision of services. For the Court, the regulation violated the principle of unity of […]

Author: Angélica Carrión Decree 1227 of 2022 modified Decree 1072 of 2015 and added some extra aspects as for the implementation and regulation of teleworking modality. In particular, the general changes included in the new decree refer to: Employment contracts for teleworkers shall contain, inter alia, description, restrictions and responsibilities for equipment and software, the […]

Author: Angélica Carrión On 22 July 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued Resolution 5477, by which it clearly and forcefully established the Colombian migration procedure; in it we can see some guidelines that cover several gaps contained in the previous regulations and the creation of new categories of visas adapted to the global reality […]

Author: Alejandro Castellanos It would be inadvisable to reinstate employees who were dismissed for certain just causes; e.g., the employee’s preventive arrest for more than 30 days. The Labour Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice established in decision No. SL816-2022 that, if an event or circumstance should arise in which a loss of trust […]

Author: Alejandro Castellanos By means of Decree 555 issued on 9 April 2022, the Ministry of Labour regulated the conditions that will apply to the labour relations between employers and workers who perform their work under the remote work modality. This Decree has established the minimum clauses that the employment contract must contain for this […]