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

    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.

    Jul 29, 2024

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    Could an Employee's Participation in a Strike Empower the Employer to Suspend Social Security Contributions?

    In this article, we provide a jurisprudential analysis of the unification ruling 138 of 2021 issued by the Constitutional Court, which decreed the analysis and admissibility of the tutela action against decisions rendered by the Labor Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, in the understanding that it seeks to examine whether the fundamental rights to due process and access to the administration of justice were violated by the plaintiff, as well as the implications for the employer in cases of strikes regarding payments for contributions to the social security system in health, pensions, and occupational risks, as well as the social benefits to which the worker is entitled.

    October 19, 2021

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