Políticas públicas y la protección de los derechos de los trabajadores informales en el ámbito de la construcción en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

Abstract

The objective of the research is to understand the reasons why informal work in the construction sector in the Metropolitan District of Quito, is one of the most vulnerable sectors within the city, seeking to relate how the social, economic, educational and cultural context influences the growth of informal work, the results obtained reveal an imbalance within the rules that regulate and protect workers and the reality that exists within the violation of labor rights, added to the problem of not having real statistics about labor accidents in the construction industry, taking into account that the majority of labor accidents are due to the lack of occupational safety training that exists within the construction industry, is the result of the limitation related to the lack of tools that control agencies have to perform in a better way to fully comply with public policies that exist to safeguard workers in the city.