2024-01-16 01:17:41
The National Government would deactivated the call of the Salary Council, scheduled for the end of January. This is in response to the tension with the CGT, and other labor unions, for the strike next Wednesday the 24th in protest once morest the labor reforms.
In a context of frenetic inflation, The minimum wage would remain at 156 thousand pesos, following its last update in December. Only in that month it had an increase of 8.5%, once morest a Consumer Price Index of 25.5 percent.
The most critical economic variable that depends on the minimum wage is the value of social planswhich are adjusted automatically and on which they depend more on 1.2 million beneficiaries. It also affects the retirement benefits and unemployment insurance.
The call to the Council on Employment, Productivity and the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage had been one of the first confirmations from the Government as soon as he took over. The Secretary of Labor himself, Omar Yasín, had placed this debate between union members and businessmen between the 20th and 30th of this month.
However, everything would have changed following the CGT declared a 12-hour strike on the 24th and counted on the occasion with the support of the two CTA and the bulk of the social movements for both that measure and the planned march. to Congress.
Héctor Daer, co-secretary general of the CGT, took advantage of his participation in Congress in the DNU debate this Monday to claim ““the urgent call” to the Salary Council.
Minimum wage: falling number
The Salary Council has 32 members divided halfway between representatives of labor confederations (most of them from CGT, and some seats for the two CTA) and the employers’ chambers (commerce, industry, construction, banking, SMEs and stock exchange) that They decide the value of an index. Only the State, which usually acts as arbitrator, is the real payer of the minimum wage.
In the numbers that the Government has, the minimum wage experienced last year an increase of 124 percent between April and December once morest a variation of 156% in the basic basket. The net loss of purchasing power is attributable to the management of Alberto Fernández.
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