Impacto causado por la emergencia sanitaria del Covid-19 en el empleo dentro de las empresas privadas de la provincia de Pichincha.

Abstract

This research work was developed with the aim of analyzing how the health emergency affected employment x within private companies in the province of Pichincha. With the arrival of the Corona virus to Ecuador, there were some changes, putting the entire country in a lock down. This situation affected economically all companies regardless of their size, but the most affected were micro and small companies. For this reason, some of these small companies had to close their doors, meanwhile the large companies made changes in order to adjust and therefore be able to keep themselves open for a while, although later some of them closed their doors as well, thus causing its employees to be separated from their jobs and increasing the unemployment rate in Ecuador during the first months of 2020. During the health emergency, the population cared more about purchasing basic needs than luxury goods, and that is the reason why some economic sectors were affected more than others due to low demand. To address the economic and social problems that arose during the health emergency, especially those related to employment, and to protect the workplaces, the government implemented a new law, the Humanitarian Organic Law. Within this new law, new work modalities were approved, and they were welcomed by the companies.