Inestabilidad laboral en el Ecuador. Un estudio en época de pandemia

Abstract

Ecuador is a Latin American country that over time has undergone a variety of changes within the political, social and economic contexts, which have directly affected the labor market. The pandemic brought with it innumerable transformations in these fields. The measures imposed by the government were a way to preserve a balance within the country. Organizations had to adapt to a new reality by implementing measures with which workers no longer had any certainty of keeping their jobs, resulting in a sense of job instability that became a strong stressor for the individual in the workplace, directly impacting their mental health. The unemployment rate has reached its peak in June 2020 and the percentage of job stress in workers had a considerable increase in the pandemic year. Based on this information, the present systematization is born with the objective of evidencing labor instability and its impact on mental health in Ecuadorian workers during the pandemic period; the research has a qualitative approach with a non-experimental design of exploratory character; oriented from the critical paradigm that is based on a historical-dialectical methodology, where the different periods of change in the country up to the present time are collected.