Public labor policies of the governments of the past 50 years

Abstract

Objective. To analyze, based on the judgment of experts in the feld, Peruvian labor regulations in the public sector during the last five decades, comprising thirteen governments between 1968 and 2021, from the presidency of General E. P. Juan Velasco Alvarado to that of Engineer Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler. Methods. The research developed was of a basic type, employing a quantitative approach that produced a descriptive level study, under a nonexperimental research design of transversal cut. The sample was obtained through a purposive sampling procedure, and consisted of 10 doctoral students enrolled in the Thesis Seminar III of the Doctorate in Law of the Graduate School of the University of Huánuco (Peru), to whom a survey was applied, administered through a questionnaire. Results. There is a vast and differentiated labor regulation in the Peruvian public sector, where there are 15 different labor regimes, in a context of unresolved structural labor problems by the current legislation, which contributes to increase labor instability in the public sector, whose responsibility lies with the national, regional and district governments; all of which reafrms the legal meaning of labor stability as a contractual link between the State and the public employee. Conclusions. The Peruvian public labor regulatory policy of the past five decades is in general terms coexistent, dispersed and unequal, and has maintained the incoherent effects on the welfare of the public worker based on the coexistence of the private labor regime within the public sector.