LatinNews Daily - 26 June 2025

*Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has signed into law the labour reform bill that cleared congress on 20 June after completing the ‘conciliation’ phase between the upper and lower chambers. Labour Minister Antonio Sanguino said that “this is a law which not only protects the worker, but also contributes to the consolidation of the country’s productive apparatus”. Despite having been watered down slightly from the government’s initial proposal, the labour reform still amounts to a radical overhaul of Colombian labour law. Among other things, it mandates a shorter working day, enhanced rights for gig and agricultural workers and apprentices, restrictions on short-term contracts, and a new pension fund for peasant farmers. Petro yesterday revoked a decree which had convened a referendum on the government’s original, more radical reform proposal, which he had used to pressure congress not to dilute the bill further during the conciliation phase.

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