The constituent elements of teleworking and its impact on Ecuadorian legislation.

Abstract

The knowledge society with the intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT), emerges to the workplace in the irreversible fact of adopting new work modalities, such as the innovative and unique teleworking, evidently generating changes in the labor structure with direct impacts on the legal system, then influencing constitutional and labor rights; framework in which, through ministerial agreements, teleworking was born in Ecuador. Consequently, it was possible to scientifically reveal its constituent elements, to know its impact on Ecuadorian legislation, and the discussion of the most relevant legal aspects with regulatory approaches to consider in a possible specialized organic law, or its inclusion in the Labor Code and Organic Law of the Public Service.