In March 2020, the World Health Organization qualified COVID-19 as a global pandemic, a fact that caused changes in the lifestyles of the population, and the incorporation of governmental measures, under the motivation of public calamity, which had repercussions in the acceleration of the bankruptcy of companies, the increase of unemployment, hasty regulations and many actions executed to the detriment of the right to work. The objective of this article is to reflect on how people now unemployed and facing a situation of unforeseen poverty due to the pandemic can exercise in Ecuador the rights that the State has guaranteed them according to the Constitution of the Republic and how the political -administrative measures adopted by the government have affected the quality of life of the people by being dictated without certainty of the national context. Through a descriptive analytical study, it was mainly concluded that in Ecuador there is a lack of knowledge and lack of administrative records of formal, informal and other categories of workers not considered to date and that its policies are therefore not congruent with the reality so that they effectively guarantee the development of the right to decent work.