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    Occupational Safety and Health in Telework: Key Challenges, Strategies, and Adaptations in Colombia.

    Since the coronavirus pandemic, the labor world has accelerated the adoption of one of the contracting modalities already regulated by our legal system, "TELEWORK," because, although this type of contract has existed for decades, the health crisis, coupled with the need to use new technologies and digitalization, allowed the consolidation of telework as one of the predominant contracts in the labor sector today. In Colombia, Law 1221 of 2008 and its Regulatory Decree 884 of 2012, as well as Resolution 2827 of 2017 of the Ministry of Labor, regulate the purpose and aim of this type of contract, and also establish the minimum occupational safety and health conditions that must be guaranteed; these regulations oblige employers to implement adequate OSH measures for teleworkers, who must have the same conditions of protection as those working in the company's offices.

    July 29, 2024

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