Adolescents facing their labor rights in Ecuador, in times of pandemic - Covid 19.

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Ana María Torres-Larco
José Gabriel Barragán-García

Abstract

The right to work constitutes human dignity that must guarantee adequate employment to adolescent workers, in order to provide them with an integral development. Right, that is contemplated in the Constitution of Ecuador, international treaties, and among them, those signed with the International Labor Organization (ILO). Therefore, both nationally and internationally, various rights of working adolescents have been protected. There are multiple adolescents, in order to satisfy their basic needs, they have been forced to leave their homes, in search of a job, which has not guaranteed their integral development. With the Covid-19 health crisis, more and more adolescents have been forced to look for a job. Being the main points of analysis in this article: 1. Identify the appropriate age to start the employment relationship, 2. The right to work compared to human dignity, 3. Guarantee comprehensive development in the work environment. The central objective of this work is to analyze the violation of the right for working adolescents. This research has a qualitative approach, which uses the exegetical method, to address the legal problem based on the legislative body and the dogmatic method, in order to analyze the problem that adolescents face when getting a job that guarantees their integral development.

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Torres-Larco, A., & Barragán-García, J. (2022). Adolescents facing their labor rights in Ecuador, in times of pandemic - Covid 19. 593 Digital Publisher CEIT | ISSN 2588-0705, 7(3-2), 360-371. https://doi.org/10.33386/593dp.2022.3-2.1157
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Ana María Torres-Larco, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica - Ecuador

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2769-0123

Lawyer of the Courts of the Republic of Ecuador, Master in the master's program in Labor Law and Social Security of the Technological University Indoamerica.

 

José Gabriel Barragán-García, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica - Ecuador

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0077-4650

Lawyer of the Courts of the Republic of Ecuador, Specialist in Comparative Civil Law. Master in Civil Law and Civil Procedure, Doctoral Student (Ph.D) in Legal Sciences – Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Postgraduate teacher in the Master's Degree in Labor Law and Social Security at the Indoamerican Technological University.

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