72 hours after his appearance, the government’s labor reform project produced new trainees who had no balance in the short term. Controversy surrounded the timing of the upcoming legislative debate until some competing sectors gained and lost positions when President Javier Milei returned from Norway and signed the final text. But the urgency to kick off debate in the Senate could face another earlier obstacle in the courts. As PERFIL was able to reconstruct, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) is analyzing the presentation of an amparo in the judiciary to question the inclusion of the project in the Senate since it violates the national constitution.
Karina Milei, the Secretary General of the Presidium, is convinced and lets everyone who enters the Casa Rosada know that the ambitious initiative will be explicitly discussed in Parliament. This was confirmed by PROFILE. The president’s sister claims from her perspective that “the votes are there,” displaying an optimism that contrasts with the congressional data.
Karina is sure that work modernization will become law this year. The chairman of La Libertad Avanza is contradicted by parliamentary sources who speak of a debate that could last until February or in regular sessions, given the complexity of the text and the attitude of the governors, who are silent and do not guarantee today that they want to approve the text.
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Libertarian sources are cautious, with some warnings. They are the voices that highlight that it is still necessary to forge ties with the opposition, permeable to conversations with the purple force, and that from next week there will be a series of resistances that will be expressed on the streets.
It is a reference to the mobilization against the reform organized by the CGT on Thursday December 18th in Plaza de Mayo. The protest begins at 3 p.m. and will, for now, bring together the two CTAs (both Hugo Yaskys and Hugo Godoys), social movements and unionists identified with the Left Front, a party that has promised help. All with the premise of bringing 150,000 people together and sending a strong message to Milei and the domestic politicians who are ready to support the initiative, which will initially be discussed in the Senate.
In Azopardo Street, in the midst of this total confrontation with the ruling party, they do not rule out presenting an injunction against the project. The reason? Because it contains articles on tax topics, such as: B. Reforms in taxes and contributions as well as changes in profits and VAT. These are aspects that contradict Article 52 of the Constitution, which states that any reform that establishes tax changes must be introduced by MPs. At headquarters they still say that there is nothing fixed, but they do not rule out the alternative either.
A part of the ruling party that sees itself as a “dialogue”, embodied by Santiago Caputo, presidential advisor, claims that it is important to reach agreements with the Cegetista front office. An argument shared by Julio Cordero, the nation’s labor minister, who, based on travel and joint panels at the International Labor Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, maintains a fluid dialogue with several of the key representatives of the Azopardo Strait.
The official was always convinced that there should be no progress in restricting the collection of the solidarity contribution, one of the articles that caused the greatest discontent in the trade union movement, despite the fact that chief of staff Manuel Adorni had promised that this financing system would not undergo any changes. Nevertheless, he tried to appear victorious in the indoor discussion and in recent days conducted a media raid to evaluate the text. He said: “It is not an anti-everything law, it is pro-business, pro-union and pro-worker.”
On the opposite sidewalk is and remains Federico Rumpfenegger. During the debate on the small print of the initiative, the Minister for Deregulation and Transformation of the State promoted the most sensitive changes to labor contract law. One of them is the abolition of the provision that allowed a collective agreement to remain in force even when it expired, forcing a renegotiation (so-called ultraactivity). It motivated the precedence for the termination of labor relations, which establishes that when an individual contract or a collective agreement provides more advantages (salary, compensation, etc.) than a general law, the most advantageous one is applied to protect the employee, especially in the event of bankruptcy or corporate insolvency.
The “colossus” also managed to limit compensation and tried to go a step further by trying to abolish the law determining the solidarity contribution, although it was able to promote restrictions such as the express consent of employees to withhold part of their salary for a solidarity contribution. Amid the tense discussions in the May Council, he also advocated that the agreements be reflected in the company and not in the activity.
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