The song is the same: about the need to reform the business This has already been talked about in Perón’s third governmentHalf a century ago. From then until today, the numbers indicating the need for some change have gotten worse.
The latest data indicates that 37.7% of workers are in the informal sector. Nearly four out of ten. They have no social work, bonus, overtime or paid holidays, for example.
At the same time, they do not contribute to the retirement system (but will want or need to retire eventually) and do not pay taxes.
It so happens that with an unemployment rate of 7.6%, Argentina’s problem is not the lack of job opportunities, but the poor quality of this work. Because even among white workers, there is a large percentage of “hidden” workers.
Santiago Polat, chief economist at IDEA and partner with consulting firm Invecq, explained this at a recent symposium of that organization: “The implementation of the de facto labor reform has already begun: Self-employment registered under the single number has increased by 42% since 2012; While formal employment increased by 3% and public employment by 34%.
He said: “This is the case, because recruitment costs vary greatly whether this is done formally or through contracting for services: an employee in a relationship of dependency, who receives a salary of $2 million, represents… Spending approximately $6.5 million annually on donations and contributions To social security. While a freelancer with the same bill would mean a Social Security cost of $218,000.
in creole, Having an official is very expensive. Businessmen usually prefer to spend less.
The result is the presence of many falsely black or “independent” people, without here judging the justice or injustice this entails and without belittling the very poor performance of the Creole economy in these decades as the cause of this decline.
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The government proposes, in the euphemistic name of “modernization” and as it turns out, adjustments to the working day (up to 12 daily but a maximum of 48 weekly), partial and off-day holidays in October/April, compensation caps and quotas and basket-ticket payment, among other measures.
Big changes that would affect the power of unions, such as the end of superactivity (collective agreements valid despite their expiration) and mandatory union dues, or enforcement of agreements by the company, would be left to a better chance.
It is one thing to modernize labor, another to normalize unions, which is where radicals with good memories can explain the impact that the failure of the Moche Law had on Raúl Alfonsín’s government.
anyway, CGT did not stop barking Just in case. Truck driver Oscar Argüello, the new co-secretary general of the CGT, said: “It is flexibility in work. Modernization is one thing, because the world of work has changed, and no one can deny the reality, but that does not mean they want to deprive us of our rights and take us into slavery.” He clearly doesn’t know what being a slave really means.
In Congress, not to be outdone, unionized Peruvian legislators — Sergio Palazzo, Vanessa Celli, Mario Manrique and Hugo Yasci, as well as Hugo Moyano Jr., who will take office in December — have circulated a different proposal. Maybe inspired by Scandinavia: Reduction in working hours, the right to disconnect from digital communication and extension of parental leave for childbirth or adoption. Holidays are between December and March.
It is not possible to understand how these initiatives – which In another context, no one will objectOn the contrary, it will help more people to work on empty, which is what should really be discussed and what should really be changed. Again, it looks like they are watching another channel. In Narnia. Then they are surprised by results like the one that happened on October 26.
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