Colombia’s Workers’ Confederation (CUT) has chosen a new president after ousting the previous leader, Colombian media reported Tuesday. The previous president Tarcisio Mora, who had been in office for four…
Colombia’s unemployment rate dipped to 10.4% in March from 10.9% during the same period last year, according to the government statistics agency DANE. The statistics agency said last month that…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos appointed German Vargas Lleras as the new Minister of Housing. Santos announced the appointment while launching a housing plan to help the country’s poorest families,…
Colombia’s monthly average salary is less than half the global average of $1,480, according to figures from the BBC and the International Labor Organization. Colombia, with an average monthly salary…
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce that Colombia is complying with the labor rights conditions that were set for a free trade agreement between Bogota to take effect.…
Just 3% of the 239,400 business signed up to Colombia’s Business Formalization and First Job Law are paying social security contributions despite receiving tax discounts, Colombian media reported Friday. The discrepancy…
Colombians working in the national oil and gas sector received wages 56% lower than foreigners in 2011, according to a report by Hays Oil & Gas and Oil and Gas Job…
The Colombian government is developing a billion dollar pension subsidy plan for the country’s millions of informal workers, said financial publication Portfolio Monday. The announcement follows a government study reporting…
Nine people were reported trapped in a rural area just outside Medellin Tuesday after the mine the victims were working in flooded. The president of the local mining association told…