The facts of the case relate to the dismissal of a group of 257 workers from the Peruvian Republic’s National Congress, in the context of the dissolution of Congress ordered by Alberto Fujimori’s government and the formation of the so-called “National Emergency and Reconstruction Government.”

The context in which these events occurred brought into focus a generalized situation of irregular dismissals in the public sector and lack of guarantees and the inefficiency of the judicial authority to address this.