Public Service Organic Law (Ecuador 2010)
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The Ecuador
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
, by creating a standarised base for the payment of compensation to civil servants. The drtaft 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
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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.
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Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
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
Public services
Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly or by financing private provision of services. The term is associated with a social consensus that certain services should be available to all, regardless of income...
, by creating a standarised base for the payment of compensation to civil servants. The drtaft 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
2010 Ecuador crisis
The 2010 Ecuador crisis took place on September 30, 2010, when elements of the National Police and military forces of Ecuador blockaded highways, occupied the National Parliament, blocked the Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito and the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in...
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Important and/or controversial elements of the law
Some police officers felt that the law negatively affected their labor rightsLabor rights
Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law. In general, these rights' debates have to do with negotiating workers' pay, benefits, and safe...
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Legal progress of the law project
President Rafael CorreaRafael Correa
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado born is the President of the Republic of Ecuador and was the president pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations. An economist educated in Ecuador, Belgium and the United States, he was elected President in late 2006 and took office in January 2007...
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'étatCoup d'état
A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...
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