Economic and Social Council
The Economic and Social Council was created in 2001 as the main entity for generating dialogue and reaching consensus between the business sector, trade unions, peasant organizations and the government. However, it was up until 2011 that this Council took a leading role and decided to include in its agenda the negotiation of a minimum wage, in addition to monitoring the "Grand National Agreement for Economic Growth with Social Equality". Even though its decisions and preliminary drafts are not binding, the Council has attained certain achievements, such as the agreement and approval of the formula or mechanism to fix the minimum wage, the reform of several articles of the Labor Code, the signing of the document called the "Grand national agreement for economic growth with social equality" (GAN), and the signing of the tripartite minimum wage fixing agreement for the years 2012 to 2014, among others.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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