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El Salvador's Failure to Protect Workers' Rights
I. SUMMARY..
II. PRINCIPAL
RECOMMENDATIONS
III. FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW...
IV. FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
UNDER DOMESTIC LAW...
Weak Labor Laws
Inadequate Protections
against Anti-Union Suspensions and Dismissals
No Explicit Protection against
Anti-Union Discrimination in Hiring
Obstacles to Union
Registration
Legal Loopholes
Forced Resignations to
Circumvent Labor Law Protections
Suspensions to Circumvent
Labor Law Protections
V. MINISTRY OF LABOR FAILURE
TO ENFORCE LABOR LAWS
Legal Obligations of the
Labor Inspectorate
Failure to Allow Worker Participation
in Inspection Visits
Failure to Provide Workers
Copies of Inspection Results
Failure to Enforce
Inspection Orders and Impose Sanctions
Failure to Rule on Alleged
Violations and Misapplication of the Law..
Participation in Labor Law
Violations: Granting Illegal Employer Requests
Obstacles to Union
Registration
Deprivation of Access to
Health Care
VI. OBSTACLES TO JUDICIAL
ENFORCEMENT OF LABOR LAW...
VII.CASE STUDIES
Lido, S.A. de C.V.
Confecciones Ninos,S.A. de C.V.
El Salvador International
Airport
Anthony Fashion Corporation,
S.A. de C.V.
Ro Lempa Hydroelectric
Executive Commission
Mario Roberto Carranza Hernndez
Other Dismissals of STSEL
Union Members and Leaders
Formation of a Parallel
Union
Industry Union of
Communications Workers
Criteria for an
Industry-Wide Union
Minimum Number of Workers to
Form a Union
Tainan El Salvador, S.A. de
C.V., and the Salvadoran Social Security Institute
Tainan El Salvador, S.A. de C.V.
Salvadoran Social Security
Institute
VIII. CORPORATE TIES TO
SALVADORAN FACTORIES
Distributor of Lido, S.A. de
C.V., Products
Corporations Supplied by
Confecciones Ninos, S.A. de C.V.
Corporations Supplied by
Anthony Fashion Corporation, S.A. de C.V.
Corporations Supplied by
Tainan El Salvador, S.A. de C.V.
IX. U.S. TRADE AND AID
POLICIES IN EL SALVADOR AND THE U.S.-CENTRAL AMERICA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT..
U.S. Development Assistance
RELACENTRO...
The Ministry of Labor's
Monitoring Unit
PROALCA..
The U.S.-Central America
Free Trade Agreement
Adequacy of Labor Laws
Enforcement of Labor Laws
X. RECOMMENDATIONS
To the Government of El
Salvador
Legal Reforms to Close
Legislative Loopholes
To the United States and
Central America in the Negotiation of CAFTA..
XI. CONCLUSION...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
APPENDIX: RESPONSE LETTERS
FROM SALVADORAN EMPLOYERS AND U.S.-BASED COMPANIES