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This video defines what part-time work is and laborers rights and benefits as part-time employees. It also explains how to calculate your hourly pay based off of salary and diurnal/nocturnal hours.

Progress is Being Made in Participatory Improvement Plans With Miners: This article presents the most relevant advances in its path of responsible mining in the pilot municipalities of the Somos Tesoro project in Boyaca and Antioquia.

Exchanges of Virtual Experiences Advance: In the midst of the COVID -19 pandemic, Colombia and the world have experienced momentous changes, changes that humanity was not prepared to face and that have forced us to venture into new technologies, new ways of doing things, and clearly, new ways to communicate.

Hands That Join To Take Care of The Treasure: Public institutions, other organizations and different key actors have joined this new path that Somos Tesoro has undertaken due to the sustainability of its initiatives, which have allowed activities around child labor to remain active in the different municipalities.

New Steps of Somos Tesoro: As director of Pact in Colombia, the leading organization of the Somos Tesoro project, Patricia Henao Saavedra has contributed to positioning the issue of reducing child labor in Colombia as a current challenge for the public and private sectors. In this interview, she reveals how Somos Tesoro broadens her horizon in 2019.

Sustainability in Antioquia: public entities have positively expressed their interest in continuing with the actions developed by Somos Tesoro in this New Stage. This is how, through the field team, it has been possible to coordinate actions with the different actors to promote the sustainability of the initiatives and activities that are still active.

Somos Tesoro Activates The New Stage in Boyaca: In the month of March, Somos Tesoro held two events in Boyacá aimed at activating the lines of action of the project - Sustainability and Dissemination - inviting public entities, private companies, trade associations, among others, to join forces to outline common objectives and manage the permanence in time of the Project activities.

New Stage of Somos Tesoro in Three Lines of Action: As of 2019, Somos Tesoro begins a new stage in which it manages the sustainability of consolidated initiatives, and links new mining territories with the purpose of reducing child labor in an integral manner through the dissemination of its methodology and the implementation of a pilot.

Small Mining: the innovation contest for artisanal and small-scale mining, organized by ARM within the framework of Somos Tesoro, made it possible for these miners to have today the water treatment system powered by the mill of wind. Thus, the water that previously polluted is now used for irrigation.

Reduction in Cases of Suspected Child Labor: The Somos Tesoro project has reached 13,239 children and adolescents with educational services. At the beginning of the project, it was identified that approximately 30.6% of these carried out activities linked to child labor. At the end of the project, this group was reduced to 4.8%, achieving a decrease of 25.8 percentage points.