The Minister of Labor of Colombia, Gloria Inés Ramírezhe reported on Wednesday that they exist in his country women what do you see Forced to wear diapers in their places of Work because they don’t give them enough time to go to the bathroomwhich he described as “explosions“.
According to President’s cabinet official Gustavo Petro, these anomalies were detected during the inspections made to companies flowers Already fish processing plants, Moreover.
“We found in many of the visits we carried out, especially the inspectors who went to the flower area, the tuna area, Camps for vans For example, it was found that The conditions where these women carry out their work they are not the best“, he argued, with particular moderation.
And he added the detail that revealed the degrading level of working conditions, with the excuse of maximize production: “Some workers they must wear a diaper because they don’t have the time to go to the bathroom.
Van Camps – the company mentioned by the Colombian official – is a traditional brand of tuna of the South American country with a presence also in Ecuador.
“We have traveled all the way to the Pacific Ocean to bring the best tuna to your table,” he says in his social media posts. The company did not comment. in response to the Petro official’s statements.
The elite inspectors who revealed women’s working conditions in Colombia
According to Ramírez, the Ministry of Labor is looking for mechanisms so that “effectively these conditions for the exercise of work and professions have human dignity basically”.
After discovering these abuses, the Government is planning a”emergency plan and a correction plan for these, which are outbursts, that happen in the daily lives of many working women in the fields and in the cities“of Colombia, added Ramírez.
According to the minister, labor inspectors have currently imposed 2023 millionaire fines: “This year we have fines of 25,000 million pesos as a result of surveillance and control so that labor standards do not remain on paper,” he indicated.
The Colombian Minister of Labor, Gloría Inés Ramírez, in the press conference in which she denounced the use of diapers by factory employees.According to the newspaper El Heraldo, the government currently has 1,450 labor inspectors who act as “policemen” of workers’ rights and, furthermore, this year a elite group of inspectors clearly committed to ensuring women’s rights in the workplace, and it was the team that made this shocking discovery.
Now, although no formal sanctions have yet been imposed in this case, the Ministry of Labor is already carrying out the necessary investigations to proceed in this regard.
Source: Clarin
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