Análisis de la aplicación legal del art. 169 numeral 6 del Código de Trabajo.

Abstract

In the following titling work, the legal application of article 169 numeral 6 of the Labor Code was analyzed based on the crisis that Ecuador is experiencing due to the coronavirus pandemic (Covid 19) that has hit the entire economy of our country and the world. In our environment there have been various positions regarding the application of this numeral, it has been common for employers to rely on this measure to proceed to terminate the employment contract, which shows the inadequate application of this article, approved by means of Ministerial Agreement, therefore it is questioned whether in the face of the dismissals that have occurred after the health emergency, it has been applied under the law and above all under a timely follow-up to take both the contracting parties and the workers in order to generate harmony in the both labor and social relationship between fellow citizens knowing that this pandemic has hit many sectors of the population in general.