The right to retirement of telecommunications workers in the national telecommunications corporation of Ecuador

Abstract

For the enactment of the Law on retirement of telecommunications workers, it was considered that technicians working in the telecommunications area are prone to suffer from occupational diseases, which will limit or make it impossible for them to carry out technical activities for which they were hired, even definitively. This article focuses its analysis on the special retirement process of workers in the telecommunications sector, who work in the company CNT of Ecuador and the application of the regulations that govern it. For this purpose, the retirement regulations in their relevant part establish the technical positions that may access special retirement or early retirement as it is known internationally. Retirement that must be granted by the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS).  For the development of legal research, the qualitative method was used, both of the national regulations, and of the positions that have historically been modified in their denomination, without implying alteration or reduction of their technical functions, as a result of the continuous changes of corporate name and implementation of organizational restructuring processes of telecommunications companies in the private sector and in the specific case of the National Telecommunications Corporation (Public Company). Allowing in this way to analyze all the historical, doctrinal and procedural aspects of this type of special retirement, and how the change of name of the technical positions, affects the normal development of the retirement process for workers in this important labor sector.