La inaplicabilidad de las medidas laborales propuestas por la moción del FMI, por su contradicción con los derechos laborales reconocidos por el ordenamiento jurídico ecuatoriano

Abstract

In the beginning of 2019, Ecuador requested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a loan of approx. 4.21 billion dollars, through a letter of intention that expressed the willingness of embracing the economic policies suggested by the entity in the evaluation previously made in the country. In mid-2019, the IMF approved the loan requested by Ecuador with condition that the country must adopt a series of economic policies, among which it is possible to find labor reforms based on three axes: the flexibilization of the work contract, the elimination of hiring and firing costs, and the increase of the probation period. However, these measures centered on the capital over the human factor, are incompatible with constitutional and legal dispositions of the Ecuadorian legal system, and also, they contravene principles of Labor Law such as work stability, intangibility of work rights, protection of unemployment, among others.