LABOR ADMINISTRATIVE DISCRETION. NEO-CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE, GRANTING, EXERCISE AND JUDICIAL CONTROL

Abstract

Public employment, as a scarce social resource, has been turned into a political fort or the possibility of materializing the whimsical individual interest of the servant representing the employer state through effigies such as administrative discretion. The name and ambiguous meaning of this power make it viable, for convenience purposes, to ignore the implications of the rule of law, the essential minimum principles of the employment relationship and the fundamental labor rights. The resistant connivance to the transformations reflected by the legislator and the very distant stances among judicial authorities, on the one hand, feed the rule of law above higher regulatory contents and, on the other, make the people’s possibility of finding effective right protection selective. Both positions are highly deleterious to the neo-constitutional model.