On June 6, 2023 the constitutional court declared unconstitutional article 9 of Law 797 and will extend that women will no longer have to contribute 1,300 weeks to retire, but that it would be reduced to 1,000 weeks.
(See: Women will no longer have to contribute 1,300 weeks to retire).
With this decision it It supposes that now the Congress of the Republic should take advantage of the ruling to legislate considering the gender approach raised by the Court. For this, the Legislature will have until December 31, 2025.
(See: What should Congress do after ruling on women’s pension).
In this sense, Laura Porras, Professor of Law at the Universidad de los Andessuggests that it is important to increase the pension age for women because very few reach the number of weeks when they reach the pension age.
In Colombia, men can retire at 62 years of age, while women at 57.
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Let the Court consider it, «it gives women more time to add that number of weeks, since, in general, they have the possibility of contributing more«, the teacher found.
Also, this «would reduce the pension gap between men and women and the fiscal impact«.
Increasing pension years would help women, given that «they retire less than men and the allowances they receive are much lower than those of men, it has to do with the fact that they have unstable employment trajectories, they usually leave their jobs for care functions and then return to the labor marketPorras concludes.
(See: The impacts that will fall on women’s contribution weeks).
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