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The WU report, Colonel. That' s the one we go immediately with

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the Law of the Chair. What
an initiative surely so controversial, but so

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interesting and that can shelter thousands of
people. They explained that it is already

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working in several countries. Daniel Report
Friday Good morning July. This is today

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' s Colonel report. There is
no precise statistic, but there are hundreds

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of thousands of Colombians who have to
work full days standing, some of them

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standing in one place, in a
limited area, without having a moment to

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sit down. The health consequences are
severe because of the effects it has on

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the legs, neck, back.
Often people who work like this suffer from

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varicose veins and damage to the muscles, joints, and tendons of the hip,

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knee, and feet. Medical studies
have also established that standing for many

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hours can cause damage to the uterus
and may lead to miscarriages. Among the

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people who have to earn a living
standing on one site are, among many

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others, the vendors and vendors of
counter, who serve restaurants in food squares,

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stylists and barbers, kitchen staff in
restaurants and cafes, doctors and nurses

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who perform surgical procedures and especially,
the cashiers of supermarkets. The representative to

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the Chamber, Jorge Bastidas, introduced
a bill to alleviate the working conditions of

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these workers. We will talk to
him today, but first we will talk

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briefly with people who inspired this initiative. Doña Elizabeth Niño has worked twenty-

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eight years as a saleswoman at the
Olympic Stores, almost three decades in which

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she has made a living working on
her feet. Miss Isabel, good morning,

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good morning, Daniel, how are
you? And good morning for the

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net work. Seeing now, Elizabeth, how are you, please tell us,

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what time it starts and what time
the work ends for a supermarket cashier.

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Okay. We work in shifts,
not nine- hour shifts. We

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enter at one week at eight in
the morning and finish our day at five

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in the afternoon, including Sundays and
holidays. The other shift is from one

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afternoon to ten at night, including
also Sundays and theseus too, because sometimes

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we have to work hours this during
those nine hours. How long do you

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have for how long a person who
is standing there has to rest in the

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cash register? We have fifteen minutes
to take the brey and the time the

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moal no more we are, Doña
Elizabeth, in these almost thirty years you

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have been working in those conditions you
have felt some effect on your health.

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Yes, Daniel Acio peraya three times
the oatmeal varis precisely because he' s

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standing all the time in ces.
Yes, of course, because he almost

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thought of his health and right now, because the pears almost hurt his hip

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a lot. What you said right
now, well, Miss Elizabeth, thank

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you very much. She is also
with us, Mrs Claudia Sa Suárez,

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who is the president of the trade
union of the Chayo clinic, because there

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are also people who work in clinics
and hospitals who have to do it on

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their feet for many hours, Doña
Claudia, how she is in a hospital

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or in a clinic who have to
work on their feet. Of course I

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do. Good morning, Daniel,
good morning to your team and good morning

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to Representative Bastidas from the Chadio clinic. The staff who work standing is the

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one who is attending patient floors in
the emergency area all the time. They

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don' t have time to sit
or pause. And in areas where procedures

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are performed in surgery rooms, we
know that there are surgeries that take longer

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than others, but all the staff
there must be standing. It is paradoxical,

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but people who work in hospitals and
clinics to cure patients or relieve their

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pain end up sick from the way
they work. They could do that same

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job sitting down. Of course,
there would be areas where they could sit

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or have at least some pauses that
would allow them to regain their breath again

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to continue in their work. Well, thank you very much, Mrs Claudia.

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The project is called the Chair Law
and has a gigantic consequence on the

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economy of the health system. If
there are fewer people with these occupational diseases,

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there will be less burden on health
budgets. But even more important the

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Law of the Chair seeks to be
more humane and friendly the work for hundreds

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of thousands of people. Its author
is the representative Jorge Bastidas, whom we

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greet at this hour. Good morning, Representative Bastías, very good morning,

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Daniel, thank you very much for
the space to place on the table the

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reality of many people must fulfill their
working days standing for long hours, thus

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generating the difficulties that you have already
seen exposing congressman. What exactly is proposed

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in the draft law on cycling.
Well, the law of the chair is

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a legislative initiative that states that companies
that have at their service people who must

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work on their feet because they are
supplied with a chair and, above all,

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that they are allowed to sit in
brief pauses during their working day,

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which is not happening. This applies
to different scenarios. There are people who

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work statically throughout the day, in
the case of people who work as cashiers

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on large areas or in different shops. There are eight people who also work

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on their feet, but they are
allowed mobility, such as pushers, pushers,

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waiters, porters, and there are
other people whose work, even though

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they are standing up, may also
be able to develop these tasks in a

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seated way, as the law has
already stated before. What it does is

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to establish a series of duties responsibilities
binding on companies or employers in the event

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that they are days, are jobs
that are done through outsourcing and it also

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establishes a series of prohibitions for employers
to be allowed, so that the fact

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that people can carry out the work
sitting and the nature of that work is

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not prohibited and so on. It' s basically three themes. It establishes

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obligations, defines prohibitions and, fundamentally, also makes changes to the topic of

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working time, in the sense that
it includes recesses so that people can sit

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down when the work is not allowed
to carry out the work in a focused

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way, but must necessarily be stopped, because it has pauses to be able

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to recover. Basically that' s
what the law sets out. It'

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s a simple law, but not
a simple one. It is very important

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for those who a lot of Colombians
should do the work in this way.

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Such short breaks every two hours as
proposed in your bill and the provision of

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chairs so that workers can sit in
these periods can affect the productivity of businesses.

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Not improving the working conditions of the
labour force in any way affects productivity

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of performance. That is a criterion
that has really prevailed in some employers,

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but it is totally wrong. It
raises productivity from the fact that workers have

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better working conditions. In fact,
these provisions are already contained in labour standards.

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You could say that, but they' re not that explicit. They

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are established in a very generic way
even resolutions and circulars established within the framework

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of collaborative risk administrations, as they
are already established there to improve the working

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conditions of the people. But the
truth is that the reality of thousands of

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people today who continue to work on
their feet for four or eight or twelve

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hours almost without rest, because they
are simply not allowed to sit and are

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allowed to have adequate breaks so that
they can recover. So, even though

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there are some very generic provisions,
they have not been efficient so that something

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as basic as being able to carry
out a sitting job can be done.

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Then. That is why this legal
initiative has been established. Among other things,

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Daniel, I want to tell you
that it is not only elaborated by

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us, but has also been supported
and built. Work teams of other parliamentarians

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have participated in its construction. Yeah, that' s just it. I

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wanted to ask you, Dr Bastidas, what international background there is to the

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Silla Law several. I believe that
the oldest precedent we are finding in Spanish

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legislation in the year nineteen hundred and
twelve, then that it is in Chile

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we find antecedent in nine hundred and
fourteen, the Law of the Chair,

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which is later included in its labor
provisions in its labor code. In Argentina,

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Jokes since nineteen hundred thirty- five
and currently in Mexico. I believe

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that the Silla Law has just been
passed precisely in order to establish this kind

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of treats in Colombia. The oldest
background. We' re finding them.

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In the year nineteen hundred and seventy- nine and when the trade union movement

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managed to include chairs for elevator operators
in Colombia, then those are the basic

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background. It is not, of
course, a great thing that already exists,

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but unfortunately, in Colombia it is
not given a legal development. Explicit.

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Many people who are listening to us
have not met these advisors, but

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in the films elegantly dressed gentlemen who
some told them what to floor for.

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Yeah, they certainly don' t
exist. The advisors are automated, but

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they for many years worked on their
feet a thousand thanks. Or one exists.

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There is, yes, of course
I, at that time rented an

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office in the center of Bogotá and
indeed, there are the elevator operators in

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the building Jorge Garceso. You can
arrive and you will realize that at this

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moment there is still the occupation of
the advisors as a curious thing. One

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of those assorists, in a building
on Jimenez Avenue. I don' t

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remember the name of the building.
He told me an anecdote he' d

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always wanted to tell. As a
journalist. He worked like a jack.

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He opened the elevator door under a
person he was carrying and a Lydia bull

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came in, attacked him and killed
him and it seems that the bull had

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escaped from a truck there on Jimenez
Avenue. Anyway, thank you very much,

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Dr Bastidas. The International Labour Organization( ILO) recommends that people who

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are standing for many hours have chairs
or stools to rest regularly, that workers

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have a softer floor to lessen the
impact on their legs and that there be

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enough space in that workplace so that
they can change positions while doing their work.

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A small big initiative, the Law
on Chairs, which can make a

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huge difference in the quality of life
and health of hundreds of thousands of workers.

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This was today' s colonel report. Thank you very much. Thank

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you, Daniel, they greet you
from McDonald' s. The ice cream

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boys at McDonald' s work eight
hours standing, eight hours standing, and

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Alberto you' re still right,
the congressman of buildings with an asnorist and

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they' re like a lever.
No, they' re very old.

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It' s the one where the
terrace program is going to be. The

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Colón building, I think it'
s called Colón. Yes, sir Twenty

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- sixth Street, ninth race,
yes, and old. The President Hotel

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building, too. I think there
are several, because they haven' t

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changed. It makes them the building
of Colombia did not work Garzón nestorel nestoria

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clear to you yes, and the
building Pedro A López on Avenida Jiménez,

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I think they. I think it' s headquartered now or it' s

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from the Ministry of Agriculture. I' m not sure. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah. The ministry was Banco Cafetero
and then the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture