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President Santos said the goal of the negotiation is “to maintain the income of workers but also to avoid a negative effect" for those who earn the minimum.

The backpay and extended benefits apply retroactively to all Avianca pilots — not only the roughly 700 members of the ACDAC union.

Avianca hopes to stave off a strike in a morning meeting tomorrow with representatives of the pilots union ACDAC.

Restrepo has been serving in the family benefits division of the Ministry of Labor. López has yet to announce her plans for the future.

The new monthly minimum will be 820,857 pesos, or just over $272 USD.

Mintrabajo, Colombia’s ministry of labor, announced that the monthly minimum wage throughout the country will be set at $644,350 pesos per month, an increase of 4.6%. The labor minister, Luis Eduardo Garzón, announced that the increase was higher than in previous years, thus...