Petition Regarding Ecuador's Eligibility for ATPA Designation

September 2005

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Introduction

The Current Situation

Developments Since September 2004

Ecuador’s Inadequate Executive Decree on Subcontracting

Child Labor Inspectors: Inadequate Funding, Training, and Infrastructure

Conclusion

Appendix: September 2004 Petition Ecuador’s Eligibility for ATPA Designation

Introduction

Freedom of Association

ILO Intervention and Creation of the National Labor Council

Inadequate Draft Executive Decree on Third-Party Contractors

Draft Executive Decree Loophole

Harmful Child Labor

Inadequate Training for Child Labor Inspectors

Inadequate Funding for Child Labor Inspectors

Insufficient Programs to Rehabilitate Fired Child Workers

Benchmarks on Freedom of Association

Benchmarks for Los Alamos Case

Benchmarks for Reform of Laws on Freedom of Association

Benchmarks for Child Labor

Appendix: Los Alamos 2002 Labor Conflict