On Monday, legislator Karla Prendas, head of the National Liberation Party (PLN), criticized the government’s actions in the face of a strike in the Judiciary, which has halted the delivery of 35 bodies in the Judicial Morgue.
The lawmaker said that the attitude of the President of the Republic to ask for mercy and to hand over responsibility to the Judiciary for the strike is a bad sign for future labor discrepancies.
She also blamed the government for the few mechanisms to address this situation and explained that an executive decree signed in December 2014 excluded the judiciary from services considered essential to the public sector.
According to Prendas, this allows strikes in the Judiciary with the exception of the judicial police that is incorporated in the General Law of Police.
The legislator clarified that her panel does not accept that workers’ actions go so far as to affect human rights for those people who have lost family members and claim their bodies.