The principle of orality in colombo-venezuelan labor processes in relation to humanization and the right to effective judicial protection

Abstract

Within the process of reform that most Latin American countries have experienced, Labor Law has been an actor of innumerable changes in the search for social justice. In this sense, the doctrine affirms that orality as one of the main characteristics of these reforms contributes to the democratization of justice and law, since a judge is required, in addition to an active role - director and controller of the process -, direct, order and expedite the same, assuming a direct role of immediacy, interacting with the parties to determine and delimit the object of the process and thus humanize justice.

In these reforms it is pointed out the response through an analysis, orality in the Colombian-Venezuelan labor process within the humanization of justice, for which the legislative history of the labor process reforms are described and the procedural principles are identified in the labor legislation of the Republic of Colombia and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. In addition, the legal provisions related to orality in the different instances of Colombian-Venezuelan labor judicial process are examining. Finally, procedural advances in labor matters regarding orality in Latin American countries are considered.