Colombias new labor minister investigated for workplace harassment

[Judi Lynn]

written by Adriaan Alsema May 9, 2017




Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday inaugurated his new Labor Minister in spite of an ongoing investigation into alleged workplace harassment.

Incoming Labor Minister Griselda Yaneth Restrepo (Liberal Party) replaced Clara Lopez who resigned last week, allegedly to prepare herself for a 2018 presidential bid.

. . .

According to a former subordinate of Retrepo when she led the Superintendency for Family Subsidy, the now-minister intimidated officials in charge of subsidies for poor families to favor the entities responsible for the payment subsidies.

The file on Restrepo referred to a “perverse practice” of “reaching deals” with the subsidy offices that would eventually allow them to deny subsidies to families in extreme poverty.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombias-new-labor-minister-investigated-workplace-harassment/

[gtar100]

1. So sad. There seems to be a tendency to put the wrong people in charge just about everywhere.

Too bad. If there were only some way disincentivize corrupt practices for people holding positions of leadership. As it is now it's the very opposite and in fact the fast track to great wealth seems to be a willingness to show complete disregard for the welfare of others. But ultimately at what cost? Collectively it's really doing damage.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Yes, it does horrendous damage. It takes a long time to get the oligarchs to agree to move to help

any of the impoverished masses in these feudal countries, only to have the reverse-Robin Hoods swagger in and start handing out what could save lives for poor people to be used as gifts, bonuses, additional luxuries to their political friends.

Couldn't get much dirtier.

They see their places in government not as honors, but as access to the oligarchs' mad money piggy bank.