The paper begins with a brief conceptual description of the weighting, its genealogy and axiological and argumentative limits inherent to this metohodology of conflict resolution of fundamental rights. It continues with the recognition that the weighting has in the legal orders and the jurisprudence in the Latin American context, with special emphasis on the Colombian Constitutional Court's judgments and criticisms that have been leveled at this legal tool. It ends indicating how the method of weighting has been applied in the Labor and social security in Colombia