La Situación de la jornada de trabajo en el Ecuador y las propuestas de cambio

• Main Author: Lópe- Pazmiño, Ronald
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Estatal de Milagro 2012-12-01
• Series: Ciencia UNEMI
• Subjects: hours of work; production factors; efficiency and productivity.
• Online Access: http://ojs.unemi.edu.ec/index.php/cienciaunemi/article/view/58/55

This essay aims to analyze the effect on that the productive variables resulting from the implementa-tion of a reform to the existing Labour code, in relation to the daily working day in Ecuador. Ecuador is not far from the reality of the rest of the continent, and has been immersed in stages of labour flexibility and rigidity. "Work" which is referred to in this document, is all that activity which man undertakes to ensure the sustainability of his own life and that of his family. Reforms to the workday, proposed by the Chamber of industries are designed to achieve better functioning of the economic sectors (primary, secondary and tertiary) in the country and thereby make it more productive, taking as a fundamental pillar the efficiency of the market, this would contribute to economic growth and sustainability. To be able to achieve this society the State should set up a legal framework, allowing it to reach this goal.