Por ley, buscan darles períodos de descanso a trabajadores que laboran de pie

0:00 The WU report, Colonel. That' s the one we go immediately with the Law of the Chair. What an initiative surely so controversial, but so interesting and that can shelter thousands of people. They explained that it is already working in several countries. Daniel Report Friday Good morning July. This is today ' s Colonel report. There is no precise statistic, but there are hundreds of thousands of Colombians who have to work full days standing, some of them standing in one place, in a limited area, without having a moment to sit down. The health consequences are severe because of the effects it has on the legs, neck, back. Often people who work like this suffer from varicose veins and damage to the muscles, joints, and tendons of the hip, knee, and feet. Medical studies have also established that standing for many hours can cause damage to the uterus and may lead to miscarriages. Among the people who have to earn a living standing on one site are, among many others, the vendors and vendors of counter, who serve restaurants in food squares, stylists and barbers, kitchen staff in restaurants and cafes, doctors and nurses who perform surgical procedures and especially, the cashiers of supermarkets. The representative to

1:34 the Chamber, Jorge Bastidas, introduced a bill to alleviate the working conditions of these workers. We will talk to him today, but first we will talk briefly with people who inspired this initiative. Doña Elizabeth Niño has worked twenty- eight years as a saleswoman at the Olympic Stores, almost three decades in which she has made a living working on her feet. Miss Isabel, good morning, good morning, Daniel, how are you? And good morning for the net work. Seeing now, Elizabeth, how are you, please tell us, what time it starts and what time the work ends for a supermarket cashier.

2:15 Okay. We work in shifts, not nine- hour shifts. We enter at one week at eight in the morning and finish our day at five in the afternoon, including Sundays and holidays. The other shift is from one afternoon to ten at night, including also Sundays and theseus too, because sometimes we have to work hours this during those nine hours. How long do you have for how long a person who is standing there has to rest in the cash register? We have fifteen minutes to take the brey and the time the moal no more we are, Doña Elizabeth, in these almost thirty years you have been working in those conditions you have felt some effect on your health.

3:16 Yes, Daniel Acio peraya three times the oatmeal varis precisely because he' s standing all the time in ces. Yes, of course, because he almost thought of his health and right now, because the pears almost hurt his hip a lot. What you said right now, well, Miss Elizabeth, thank you very much. She is also with us, Mrs Claudia Sa Suárez, who is the president of the trade union of the Chayo clinic, because there are also people who work in clinics and hospitals who have to do it on their feet for many hours, Doña Claudia, how she is in a hospital or in a clinic who have to work on their feet. Of course I do. Good morning, Daniel, good morning to your team and good morning to Representative Bastidas from the Chadio clinic. The staff who work standing is the one who is attending patient floors in the emergency area all the time. They don' t have time to sit or pause. And in areas where procedures are performed in surgery rooms, we know that there are surgeries that take longer than others, but all the staff there must be standing. It is paradoxical, but people who work in hospitals and clinics to cure patients or relieve their pain end up sick from the way they work. They could do that same job sitting down. Of course, there would be areas where they could sit

4:50 or have at least some pauses that would allow them to regain their breath again to continue in their work. Well, thank you very much, Mrs Claudia. The project is called the Chair Law and has a gigantic consequence on the economy of the health system. If there are fewer people with these occupational diseases, there will be less burden on health budgets. But even more important the Law of the Chair seeks to be more humane and friendly the work for hundreds of thousands of people. Its author is the representative Jorge Bastidas, whom we greet at this hour. Good morning, Representative Bastías, very good morning, Daniel, thank you very much for the space to place on the table the reality of many people must fulfill their working days standing for long hours, thus generating the difficulties that you have already seen exposing congressman. What exactly is proposed in the draft law on cycling. Well, the law of the chair is a legislative initiative that states that companies that have at their service people who must work on their feet because they are supplied with a chair and, above all, that they are allowed to sit in brief pauses during their working day, which is not happening. This applies to different scenarios. There are people who

6:21 work statically throughout the day, in the case of people who work as cashiers on large areas or in different shops. There are eight people who also work on their feet, but they are allowed mobility, such as pushers, pushers, waiters, porters, and there are other people whose work, even though they are standing up, may also be able to develop these tasks in a seated way, as the law has already stated before. What it does is to establish a series of duties responsibilities binding on companies or employers in the event that they are days, are jobs that are done through outsourcing and it also establishes a series of prohibitions for employers to be allowed, so that the fact that people can carry out the work sitting and the nature of that work is not prohibited and so on. It' s basically three themes. It establishes obligations, defines prohibitions and, fundamentally, also makes changes to the topic of working time, in the sense that it includes recesses so that people can sit down when the work is not allowed to carry out the work in a focused way, but must necessarily be stopped, because it has pauses to be able to recover. Basically that' s what the law sets out. It'

7:55 s a simple law, but not a simple one. It is very important for those who a lot of Colombians should do the work in this way. Such short breaks every two hours as proposed in your bill and the provision of chairs so that workers can sit in these periods can affect the productivity of businesses. Not improving the working conditions of the labour force in any way affects productivity of performance. That is a criterion that has really prevailed in some employers, but it is totally wrong. It raises productivity from the fact that workers have better working conditions. In fact, these provisions are already contained in labour standards.

8:48 You could say that, but they' re not that explicit. They are established in a very generic way even resolutions and circulars established within the framework of collaborative risk administrations, as they are already established there to improve the working conditions of the people. But the truth is that the reality of thousands of people today who continue to work on their feet for four or eight or twelve hours almost without rest, because they are simply not allowed to sit and are allowed to have adequate breaks so that they can recover. So, even though there are some very generic provisions, they have not been efficient so that something as basic as being able to carry out a sitting job can be done.

9:35 Then. That is why this legal initiative has been established. Among other things, Daniel, I want to tell you that it is not only elaborated by us, but has also been supported and built. Work teams of other parliamentarians have participated in its construction. Yeah, that' s just it. I wanted to ask you, Dr Bastidas, what international background there is to the Silla Law several. I believe that the oldest precedent we are finding in Spanish legislation in the year nineteen hundred and twelve, then that it is in Chile we find antecedent in nine hundred and fourteen, the Law of the Chair, which is later included in its labor provisions in its labor code. In Argentina, Jokes since nineteen hundred thirty- five and currently in Mexico. I believe that the Silla Law has just been passed precisely in order to establish this kind of treats in Colombia. The oldest background. We' re finding them.

10:43 In the year nineteen hundred and seventy- nine and when the trade union movement managed to include chairs for elevator operators in Colombia, then those are the basic background. It is not, of course, a great thing that already exists, but unfortunately, in Colombia it is not given a legal development. Explicit. Many people who are listening to us have not met these advisors, but in the films elegantly dressed gentlemen who some told them what to floor for. Yeah, they certainly don' t exist. The advisors are automated, but they for many years worked on their feet a thousand thanks. Or one exists.

11:28 There is, yes, of course I, at that time rented an office in the center of Bogotá and indeed, there are the elevator operators in the building Jorge Garceso. You can arrive and you will realize that at this moment there is still the occupation of the advisors as a curious thing. One of those assorists, in a building on Jimenez Avenue. I don' t remember the name of the building. He told me an anecdote he' d always wanted to tell. As a journalist. He worked like a jack. He opened the elevator door under a person he was carrying and a Lydia bull came in, attacked him and killed him and it seems that the bull had escaped from a truck there on Jimenez Avenue. Anyway, thank you very much, Dr Bastidas. The International Labour Organization( ILO) recommends that people who are standing for many hours have chairs or stools to rest regularly, that workers have a softer floor to lessen the impact on their legs and that there be enough space in that workplace so that they can change positions while doing their work.

12:37 A small big initiative, the Law on Chairs, which can make a huge difference in the quality of life and health of hundreds of thousands of workers. This was today' s colonel report. Thank you very much. Thank you, Daniel, they greet you from McDonald' s. The ice cream boys at McDonald' s work eight hours standing, eight hours standing, and Alberto you' re still right, the congressman of buildings with an asnorist and they' re like a lever. No, they' re very old. It' s the one where the terrace program is going to be. The Colón building, I think it' s called Colón. Yes, sir Twenty - sixth Street, ninth race, yes, and old. The President Hotel building, too. I think there are several, because they haven' t changed. It makes them the building of Colombia did not work Garzón nestorel nestoria clear to you yes, and the building Pedro A López on Avenida Jiménez, I think they. I think it' s headquartered now or it' s from the Ministry of Agriculture. I' m not sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ministry was Banco Cafetero and then the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture