MANTA, Manabi
Ecuadorian businessmen are concerned about the country’s situation from the security issue and because, from their perspectives, the country is not advancing at the pace they would like, because they yearn for greater economic growth, generate more employment and gain greater competitiveness and thus compete with the world.
Thus, from this Wednesday until tomorrow Thursday, more than 200 businessmen from the country are in session at the first convention of the 125 productive unions of the Ecuadorian Business Committee.
In this conclave of industrialists and businessmen, the political, economic and social situation will be analyzed and the strategic role that business unions should have to raise the country will be outlined, says Miguel Ángel González, president of the Ecuadorian Business Committee. “There are some bottlenecks, we have to analyze at this time to see what the future should be for the unions for the good of our country.”
Representatives of 125 productive and business unions will meet in Manta to outline their roles in the country’s recovery
This discussion of the union’s future and determining an action plan and a new vision to support it are part of the proposals being analyzed in Manta. Juan Carlos Díaz-Granados, executive director of the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce, believes that what he considers to be the business ecosystem should also be strengthened, which implies lowering taxes and tariffs and having greater labor flexibility.
The executive maintains that also in this issue of new labor contracting modalities there must be a co-responsibility of the National Assembly, which must create these new forms of contract, it will become easier to hire if both labor supply and demand come together, respecting the acquired rights of the modalities of contracts in force, but when creating new jobs other forms are generated.
According to a survey carried out by this national union, the majority of Ecuadorians will agree to return to the hourly contract modality.
“The Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce has said that the hourly contract modality should be implemented and that suggestion has been made to the National Assembly, also to eliminate the 35% surcharge on the eventual contract, return to the fixed-term contract , make contracts for projects and so on, a series of new modalities of work contracts that allow Ecuadorians to have a suitable job”, declared Díaz-Granados.
“I cannot be well in the macro if I do not give some well-being in the micro. The solution is to listen, rectify and reconcile”
In addition to joining efforts, the search for opportunities from this union should be promoted, identifying challenges that lead Ecuador to continue growing, said Francisco Chiriboga, president of the Chamber of Agriculture of the First Zone.
Resolving crime problems and legal insecurity are part of the concerns to be resolved, Chiriboga said, adding that it is essential to be more competitive in the scenarios of free trade agreements that Ecuador is promoting. “It forces us to prepare ourselves before a policy that the Government is managing, that in addition to representing a tremendous opportunity to access markets much larger than Ecuador, we also have to prepare ourselves internally so that our products can come out with a very considered plus” , he stressed.
After this appointment, a document will be released with the conclusions presented by the union representatives of the country. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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