The
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
an 2010 Public Service Organic Law ( ''Ley orgánica del servicio público'') was on 30 September 2010 a draft law that intended to regulate the Ecuadoran
public service
A public service is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community. Public services are available to people within a government jurisdiction as provided directly through public sector agencies ...
, by creating a standardised base for the payment of compensation to civil servants. The draft has gone through several
constitutional steps to becoming a law. As of 2 October 2010, it had not yet become a law.
The law was one of the elements in the
2010 Ecuador coup d'état attempt.
Important and/or controversial elements of the law
Some police officers felt that the law negatively affected their
labor rights
Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers. These rights are codified in national and international labor and employment law. In general, these rights influen ...
.
Legal progress of the law project
President
Rafael Correa
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963), known as Rafael Correa, is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation ...
proposed the law on 2 July 2010.
The law passed through first and second parliamentary readings and a plenary approval.
President Correa's response on 3 September was that he made a partial objection to the law proposal.
As of 2 October 2010, the law had not yet reached a final status.
Relation to the attempted coup d'état
The law was claimed by participants in the 2010 coup d'état attempt against Correa to be the reason for the attempted
coup d'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
.
References
Law of Ecuador
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