The National Council for Labor and Wages interrupted the session where the increase in wages that will prevail in 2024 was analyzed, but in this case, peace was given, especially to the labor sector, when it was decided that the ministerial agreements would not be put on the previous strength administration.
The president of the Ecuadorian Confederation of Free Trade Union Organizations (Ceosl) Marcela Arellano said after leaving the meeting that the new Minister of Labor Ivonne Núñez informed them that these six contracts she signed will not be published in the Official Register. … his predecessor Patricio Donoso, on November 21, 2023, two days before that government ended.
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These ministerial agreements include dynamic working hours up to twelve hours a day in order to have more days off per week, special days for companies that justify the reasons and obtain authorization and days that can accumulate up to 70 continuous days, this for activities that require ensuring uninterrupted services.
Arellano considers it good news to leave them invalid. The organization he manages rejected these changes in working conditions, because days “up to twelve hours a day allow the employer to divide the forty hours a week as he sees fit”.
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Xavier Rosero, representative of the employer sector before the Wage Council, said that the employer sector will always be on the side of instruments that can generate more employability, as long as they remain under the appropriate legality. He explained that they were not informed about the annulment of the said agreements because they had not yet entered into force. “We will take the necessary time to analyze them and make a statement.”
Regarding the salary meeting, he explained that it served to present technical arguments on the determination of the basic salary and he hopes to maintain a dialogue and reach an agreement.
Source: Eluniverso
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