Contracts for the provision of services with the national government will go until April 2023: what will happen to the contractors

It will be until April 2023 when the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT allows service provision CONTRACTS to continue to be handled as they have been up to now. This was promised weeks ago by the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, and thus, it seems, it will be fulfilled, after a decree that was recently issued.

This was stipulated in the recent circular issued by the Administrative Department of the PUBLIC FUNCTION and the Esap where, among other things, it is ensured that it will be until the fourth month of the next year in which the Executive allows the contracting of services while The opening of the temporary employment plants that the Government is evaluating is anticipated.

There, it is stipulated that State entities may only recruit employees under this modality as long as it is strictly necessary. However, they would go until April 2023. These contracts, according to the document, will be regulated by the Judicial Branch at both the departmental and national levels.

These entities, in accordance with the circular, "must prepare the required technical studies and establish the necessary and sufficient temporary staff to meet the missionary and administrative needs that are required," reads the PUBLIC FUNCTION text.

What the PETRO GOVERNMENT intends with the generation of these temporary plants is to improve the working conditions of almost more than a million civil servants who earn a living with service provision contracts. For this, the aforementioned plants will be created that will replace this labor modality that allows workers to have all the benefits of the law as in a fixed, indefinite contract or work, which is where they are paid vacations, bonuses, layoffs, among others. .

With this, another of the objectives of the president is ratified, which is to dismantle the parallel payrolls by the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre). For this, these four months were set for the different government agencies to carry out the aforementioned studies to see how to provide guarantees to their collaborators.

In fact, this initiative is known a few days after the Ministry of Finance presented President Petro's austerity plan, which also stipulates the new parameters when making direct CONTRACTS with the Colombian State.

These new headings respond to what the Head of State has said in previous weeks about service provision relationships, which he considers to be "a lying labor relationship" to "overexploit" workers and therefore this scheme "must go to the history".

Another provision reflected in the document has to do with the reduction of private security and surveillance contracts. In addition, there would be more cuts in this area, something that the previous government had not done.

In this regard, the Ministry of Finance specified that each institution must evaluate "the feasibility of implementing technological devices such as cameras, alarms or other devices, in order to reduce spending with this type of contract." In addition, the draft of the decree highlights that there could be an incentive for those companies that offer services focused on the use of technological security tools and not so much on linking people.

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This was stipulated in the recent circular issued by the Administrative Department of the Public Function and the Esap where, among other things, it is ensured that it will be until the fourth month of the next year in which the Executive allows the contracting of services while The opening of the temporary employment plants that the Government is evaluating is anticipated.