Galapagos Public Sector employees protesting for their salaries
A group of the public sector employees, some of them working for the Galapagos National Park, have been protesting this past week against the fact of government authorities proposing to decrease salaries and benefits for public employees in Ecuador.
The proposal from the Secretaría Nacional Técnica de Remuneraciones (SENRES) is to cut salaries in the public sector of Galapagos, as requested by the 002 mandate that enforces to cut off some of the benefits of the public employees.
The Special Law of Galapagos allows the public sector employees to earn four times more than if they were in Mainland Ecuador. For example, if the salary for a services employee is $395 in Ecuador, the same position in the Galapagos automatically pays $1580.
The Galapagos National Park and other local institutions’ employees are demanding their benefits to be untouched and respected. The Governor of Galapagos and other local authorities are negotiating to find viable solutions.
Visitor sites and tourism activities are flowing normally.