Labor Laws That Creates Migrant Workers

"The coastal machetero is forced by the labor laws of Ecuador, passed to protect his interests but achieving just the opposite, into the animal life of a migrant worker. The law states that after three months on any farm the worker is entitled to certain rights and benefits, extra pay which amounts to fifteen months of pay for twelve months of work. The only practical result of such a law is that after three months the worker is fired. And sadder still, from the employer’s viewpoint, at the end of two months, knowing that he's going to be fired it at any moment, the average machetero turns into a gold brick."
(Moritz Thomsen. The Farm On The River of Emeralds)