Manuel Adorni received more than $60,000 for an employment lawsuit

Before becoming a civil servant, the current Chief of Staff, Manuel Adorniwas employed. He worked in for almost 15 years Mapemfi SAan official Renault dealer also affiliated with Centro Automotores SA, Renault Argentina SA and Plan Rombo SA. But The employment relationship ended badly: because of some Absencesthe company sent him a document letter and then Adorni filed a lawsuit. Although the lawsuit did not go to trial, the president’s former spokesman received compensation $60,000.

The conflict began in 2016. The company sent Adorni a documentary letter asking him to justify the absences on May 11 and 12 and warning against considering quitting work. Adorni rejected this suggestion by a telegram There, he explained that on May 11, managers denied him access to work and indicated that they were preparing a settlement for unfair dismissal, he reported. The nation. Again, He asked the company to clarify his employment situation within 48 hours..

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In his lawsuit, Adorni claimed that he received a share from him undeclared compensation: $15,000 per official receipt and $45,862.15 in cash per month. He also pointed out that the date of entry had been recorded two years after the actualof September 2002. He called for the regularization of bonuses, pro-rata vacation and social security obligations according to the unreported part.

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The company rejected the arguments denied the existence of a direct employment relationship with Adorni and they ruled out joint liability.

The lawsuit was filed on April 24, 2017 before the National Labor Court No. 66. There was two arbitration hearings: one in June 2017 without an agreement and another on September 12 of the same year, when Adorni withdrew the lawsuit against Renault Argentina SA, Plan Rombo SA and Centro Automotores SA. In the same hearing, the current Libertarian official entered into an economic compensation agreement with Mapemfi SA, which was approved by the labor court.

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The company did not acknowledge the facts presented by Adorni, but promised payment 1,000,000 pesos in four installments of 250,000 pesos each between September and December 2017. The amount was more than equivalent $60,000 at the exchange rate at the time.

Javier Milei admitted that he had also filed an employment lawsuit

At the recent IDEA colloquium, the Chief of Staff expressed very harsh words for what he called “the disastrous work trial industry“We need to rebuild the bond between workers and companies that has been badly damaged by excessive bureaucracy and litigation.” To achieve this, we must remove power from agents who seek to harm them for their own gain, such as: Working scumbagswho are capable of driving an SME into bankruptcy in order to collect a judgment,” he said.

But Manuel Adorni is not the only one among high-ranking officials to talk about the “labour lawsuit industry” after creating one. The president himself Javier Milei He also recounted a similar circumstance in his book The Libertarian Way.

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“When I return from vacation, they will again propose a salary cut, which will reduce the number of hours again,” the president said. “It felt like delirium. I didn’t accept it.” What this employer did to me seemed so low and miserable to me that I sued him.since it has not been formalized. Obviously I won.

On the move to defend the project Work Modernization Act, Milei recently spoke of “the abuses committed by the judiciary against companies” and assured this Compensations “are absolutely inappropriate”.

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