Sanción moratoria por consignación inoportuna de cesantías a servidores públicos: Jurisdicción competente y derechos fundamentales

Abstract

It has been a constant the uncertainty in the jurisdiction that processes and decides lawsuits about the moratorium indemnification by the late payment of the severance pay (cesantías) to public servants. Beginning from a concise study about the scope of the jurisprudential thesis built around the previous statement, and its ambiguities, nuances and effects in the labor courts and contentious-administrative courts of our country, the author asserts and explains how the lack of uniformity and coherence about the proceeding for the solution of these controversies, constitutes a transgression against fundamental constitutional rights, mainly the due process, equality, access to the administration of justice and the principles of legitimate expectations and legal certainty. At the end, this work exalts the recent adoption of a more or less uniform criterion as a guarantee of true respect for the judicial precedent, nevertheless, it is necessary to be prudent about the surprising application of jurisprudential changes to ongoing executive proceedings.