THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CONTRACT AND ITS SCOPE AS A LABOR ALTERNATIVE

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its negative labor consequences, such as unemployment, which leaves several families without economic support, has been shocking, in fact, it is due to the alarming number of citizens seeking to generate economic income, that the Ecuadorian Ministry of Labor was forced to issue four ministerial agreements as contractual alternatives to work, among them the Ministerial Agreement MTA-2020-22 was issued, referring to the Entrepreneurship Contract, which seeks to protect entrepreneurs and their employees, encouraging enterprises to legally register in the corresponding National Registry. By maintaining its bases in the Labor Code, the worker fully enjoys labor rights and the guiding principles of Labor Law, but, despite the time this Agreement was issued, the citizenry does not have extensive knowledge about it and its outreach to certain social groups, for example, people deprived of liberty and young entrepreneurs. It is then proposed, as a general objective: Analyze the scope of the Entrepreneurship Contract as a labor alternative, which is achieved through a qualitative methodological approach and methods such as the analytical-synthetic, the historical-logical and the inductive. © 2023, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.