Observatory on layoffs during the pandemic
The Observatory on layoffs during the pandemic is an oversight body made up by students and graduates of the University of Buenos Aires and the University of La Plata, who are supported by the newspaper La Izquierda Diario. The Observatory keeps a public record of layoffs, suspensions and salary reductions during the coronavirus pandemic. The observatory emphasizes that, despite the existence of Necessity and Urgency Decrees issued during the pandemic that prohibit layoffs and salary reductions (such as Decree num. 329), these phenomena have taken place frequently throughout the country. The Observatory collects data from national and local media, as well as information provided by trade unions. Additionaly, citizens can report illegal layoffs, suspensions and salary reductions to an email account created by the Observatory for this purpose. With these actions, the observatory seeks to foster workers? rights, and contribute to them having good living conditions in spite of the emergency situation posed by the pandemic.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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