For this week at least three plenary sessions are planned, there is still no provision for these to be telematic
The National Assembly will adjust its biosecurity protocols to the provisions of the Emergency Operations Committee (national COE), due to the new wave of COVID-19 infections.
For that reason, in the first week of work activities in 2022, it will maintain its activities with reduced capacity, through the face-to-face and telework modalities, established for this purpose.
Some 250,000 workers in the public sector of the Executive function return to telework
The legislature took some measures to protect the health of legislative servants and those who go to the Ecuadorian Parliament. The Assembly’s occupational health and safety department conducts a medical evaluation and follow-up of the legislative staff.
The Food Sovereignty and Biodiversity commissions met virtually, as well as the Legislative Administration Council (CAL), it was convened at 5:00 p.m., telematically.
However, until this Monday, January 3, there are no variations with respect to the face-to-face call made by the president of Parliament, Guadalupe Llori, for the first session of the 2022 plenary session, scheduled for Tuesday, January 4 from 09:00 , whose agenda includes the processing in the first debate of the draft reforms to the Mining Law and the processing of the report that recommends the approval of the 2006 maritime labor convention.
For Tuesday afternoon, the plenary session is also called to reinstate session 740, for the processing of a resolution that declares November 15 of each year as the historic day of the workers’ struggle in Ecuador, and the draft resolution to that the president of the board of directors of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security, the members of the board of that institution and the general director of the IESS be summoned to appear before the permanent specialized commission on health law.
On the morning of this January 3, some legislative officials were invited to leave the building and communicated to take up teleworking because contagions were detected between the legislative servants. (I)
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