[Excerpt translation from Spanish to English provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

"In Puerto Boyacá, workers of the multinational Mansarovar, waiting to be transferred to Ecopetrol" - February 29, 2020

...The workers of the Asian oil multinational Mansarovar Energy, based in the geography of Puerto Boyacá, are waiting for their employment situation, when the contract of association with the Colombian State expires in November 2021... The workers consider that their passage should be given to the Colombian Petroleum Company, Ecopetrol, with all the labour guarantees agreed upon in this entity, and without ignoring those that the workers of Mansarovar, organized in the Sintraminergética section, already have... "There is uncertainty because it is not known what will happen to the workers of Mansarovar Energy, who must go directly to Ecopetrol, within the framework of the mechanism of employer substitution," explained Gomez Sierra...