The Extension of the State of Alarm due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its effects on labor relations in Venezuela

Abstract

The pandemic of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has accelerated many things, and has created large doses of uncertainty around the employment relationship. The objective of the investigation is to determine how the extension of the State of Alarm during the pandemic affects the employment relationship, decreed within the Right of Exception throughout the national territory to attend the medical health emergency in Venezuela. There is no doubt that the aforementioned decree has impacted not only the daily activities of the population, but also the employer-worker relations given the suspension of many work activities. It is a legal investigation, of a documentary nature, with a bibliographic design, the main conclusion being that the extension of the State of Alarm decreed as a result of the pandemic, has in the country important consequences on the workplace, since it modifies the system labor relations and in turn, the way in which work is organized, being pertinent to indicate that the employment relationship is seriously affected and although new opportunities such as telework have arisen, great uncertainty has also been generated in the Venezuelan labor environment Because within these urgent, effective and necessary measures, restrictions were imposed that limit the right to work of its citizens