A recent debate has emerged as a result of a communique released by the Ministry of Women and Social Development (MIMDES for its initials in Spanish), which as directed towards funeral companies so that they change "their policies of only hiring people of the black race for the jobs of casket carriers, because they are performing a clear act of discrimination ," as informed by the newspaper El Comercio .
En esa categoría entra un reciente debate originado por un comunicado emitido por el Ministerio de la Mujer y Desarrollo Social (Mimdes) dirigido a las empresas funerarias para que éstas cambien "su política de contratar únicamente a personas de raza negra para la labor de cargador de ataúdes, porque, según consideraron, estarían incidiendo en un claro acto de discriminación" tal como informa el diario El Comercio.