Impacto de la remuneración del décimo cuarto sueldo para los alimentados Ecuador 2025

Abstract

In Ecuador, the fourteenth salary represents additional compensation created to support employees in dependent employment, helping them cover expenses that arise when their children begin the school year. This research study focuses on examining the principle of the best interests of children and adolescents, who are entitled to child support in relation to the person obligated to provide it. Although the Code for Children and Adolescents establishes that the provider must also pay the two child support payments corresponding to the thirteenth and fourteenth salaries, this generates controversy when determining how the school bonus should be distributed. Thus, when the provider is obligated to pay the minor beneficiary child support equivalent to an additional month's allowance, the existence of other legally recognized family obligations is not considered, especially when the provider receives only the unified basic salary. This situation creates a difficult-to-sustain financial burden, despite the legal framework designed to guarantee and protect the rights of children and adolescents. However, these regulations related to child support have certain gaps regarding the proportional distribution of the fourteenth salary in relation to the other family obligations of the provider and their limited financial resources. The lack of clear regulations leads to inequalities when applying this benefit, creating contradictions with the principles of equality, shared parental responsibility, and the best interests of the child established in the 2008 Constitution of the Republic and the Code for Children and Adolescents. Given this context, this research proposes that the fourteenth salary should be distributed equitably among all legally recognized family obligations in order to ensure effective protection of the rights of children and adolescents who are entitled to child support.