Technological changes, scale production and productive decentralization entail new forms of cooperation and coordination between capital and labor, but at the same time imply new social realities on which the law must operate, in this case the transformation of the figure of the employer is affected and therefore the way in which labor obligations are configured, the present work aims to analyze the national form in which this phenomenon is presented through the joint and several liability of the economic groups, the present research is of a correlational-explanatory type and scope, the bases of the analysis are normative, doctrinal, jurisprudential and documentary, likewise the instrument used consisted of a questionnaire with structured questions addressed to 52 lawyers specialized in labor law.

Technological changes, scale production and productive decentralization entail new forms of cooperation and coordination between capital and labor, but at the same time imply new social realities on which the law must operate, in this case the transformation of the figure of the employer is affected and therefore the way in which labor obligations are configured, the present work aims to analyze the national form in which this phenomenon is presented through the joint and several liability of the economic groups, the present research is of a correlational-explanatory type and scope, the bases of the analysis are normative, doctrinal, jurisprudential and documentary, likewise the instrument used consisted of a questionnaire with structured questions addressed to 52 lawyers specialized in labor law.

La responsabilidad solidaria laboral del Grupo de Empresas por obligaciones laborales de una de las empresas que integra el grupo, no está regulada legalmente en nuestra legislación; se sustenta únicamente en el Pleno Jurisdiccional Nacional Laboral del 2008 realizado solo por Jueces Superiores, cuya postura ganadora tiene el siguiente texto: “Existe solidaridad en las obligaciones laborales no solamente cuando se configuran los supuestos previstos en el artículo 1183 del Código Civil sino además en los casos en los que existe vinculación económica, grupo de empresas o se evidencie la existencia de fraude con el objeto de burlar los derechos laborales de los trabajadores”. El artículo 1183 del Código Civil establece que la responsabilidad solidaria no se presume. Sólo la ley o el título de la obligación la establecen en forma expresa. Responsabilidad solidaria sobre obli...