Costa Rica’s Public Sector Begins to Return
After Directive number 073-S-MTSS of March 9, 2020, on the measures of attention and inter-institutional coordination in the face of the health alert for Coronavirus (COVID-19), provided for the temporary implementation of the telework modality in public institutions, as a complementary and necessary measure in the face of the coronavirus alert, Costa Rica has taken the first steps to return to physical presence in those institutions.
The President of the Republic, the Minister of Health, the Minister of Labor and Social Security, and the Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy have instructed the Central Administration and urged the Decentralized Administration to immediately establish a plan to return to the offices that serve the public in person, guaranteeing the continuity of those tasks that are necessary to ensure the institutional public purpose, as well as strict compliance with the health protocols of the Ministry of Health for the attention of the national emergency by COVID-19.
It has always been possible to continue with teleworking in those positions where it is possible, without affecting the continuity of institutional services to the public.
In this way, the return has begun, hoping in God that it will be definitive and that the Pandemic will not force us to turn back.
Carlos Gómez Fonseca
Partner
García & Bodán
Costa Rica