President Javier Milei, who recently landed in Buenos Aires, accompanied by Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni, signed the work modernization project that the government will submit to Congress.
The President landed after 8 a.m. this morning after attending the handover ceremony Nobel Peace Prize to the Venezuelan leader Maria Corina Machado. However, due to the speaker’s lateness, the meeting could not take place Let’s go to Venezuela.
The CGT warned that it opposed the labor reform “because it entails a loss of rights”.
The official statement on the text of Javier Milei’s labor reform project
President Javier Milei’s press office released an official statement on Thursday which reports that the Executive Branch has sent the draft of to Congress Work Modernization Acta comprehensive reform aimed at updating a regulatory framework that – according to the government – remained “virtually unchanged” for decades and failed to provide adequate responses to the labor market.
According to the official text, the central goal is Eliminate distortions, simplify and digitize work registrationin addition to “determining the salary components that make up compensation, modernizing licenses and procedures, organizing responsibilities and strengthening a system that provides security for both employees and employers.”
“Millions of Argentines have been excluded from the system”
In a critical analysis of the country’s labor situation, the statement said current regulations have “excluded millions of Argentines from the system” and caused “enormous difficulties in accessing stable and registered employment.”
The government attributes this problem to “the combination of high legal costs, imprecise rules, excessive bureaucracy and a rigid work structure”, factors which, according to the text, have slowed down the creation of registered jobs, particularly affecting young people, informal workers and SMEs.
New incentives and rules for the platform economy
The project includes “concrete incentives for the formalization of employment, new rules for the platform economy, more efficient employer contribution systems and mechanisms that reduce litigation” and promises to bring “greater predictability and long-term stability” to the system.
In parallel, the initiative will be integrated into the new phase of the National Government’s economic program, which aims to create an environment that “facilitates the recruitment of employees, encourages investment and enables the re-expansion of registered jobs in all sectors of the economy”.
Milei called on Congress to provide “swift and responsible” treatment
The statement highlights that the President “takes up the call of millions of workers excluded from the system under current legislation” and calls on Congress to “address the proposal expeditiously and responsibly.”
Milei believes that Argentina must “leave behind a work model that does not correspond to the reality of the country” and move towards a system that creates “more employment, more opportunities and greater freedom for all Argentines.”
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