Work and Social Security in Times of the COVID-19

Abstract

In the year 2020, after the occurrence of the world pandemic declared by the WHO due to the new coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2, it reached several countries around the globe. This virus has brought consequences in various sectors, among which the economic and the work ones are highlighted. In our country, during March, the government decree an economic, social and ecological emergency in the whole national territory; likewise, the government also implemented a series of measures to flatten the infection curve and declared a quarantine to secure its inhabitants. This article exposes and analyzes the decrees issued regarding work and how these decrees have protected or affected thousands of entrepreneurs and employees. For that, this research implemented a qualitative methodology- Given that only the first-need work activities are allowed, formal, informal, and independent workers, small and medium entrepreneurs, farmers and domestic laborers find themselves in a situation a vulnerability of their constitutional and fundamental rights because the issued decrees do not support or benefit them. Rather well, these have brought them economic powers due to the massive layoffs and the lack of work guarantees and protections in times of crisis.