Trade unionists and businessmen went to an intermediate room this Monday following a session of the Technical Commission of the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage Council, and waiting for the beginning of the plenary to update that income and the minimum and maximum benefits for unemployment.
The tripartite body meets under the supervision of officials from the Ministry of Labor and was reconvened before the stampede of the inflationary process.
After the previous session of the Technical Commission, the parties await the beginning of the plenary session of 32 members -16 for the working party and the same number for the employer- in order to update the value of the minimum income, which currently stands at 47,850 pesos.
The Council of the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary had met for the last time on March 16 and agreed – with the opposition of the Autonomous CTA – an increase of 45 percent in 4 sections, but in May the Government advanced the improvement and, since June 1, it is 45,540 pesos and, since August, 47,850 for monthly workers.
“No worker should receive an income of less than 111,298 pesos in order not to fall below the poverty line, as stated by Indec itself”Héctor Amichetti
Also from this month the value of the hour for daily staff is 239.30 pesos and the minimum and maximum amounts for unemployment, of 13,292 and 22,153 pesos,
The members of the tripartite body headed by the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, who in the event that there is no agreement between the parties, can laud, they meet through a videoconference to determine the new salary floor and its sections.
The latest report from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) indicated that a little more than 111 thousand pesos is required to “not be poor”, but the three labor unions agreed that in no way “that figure will be reached in the negotiation of today”, for which the Autonomous CTA ruled for “a gradual salary recovery plan for what was lost during the macrismo and to overcome this year’s inflation”.
“The minimum wage must also reach those who are not covered today, such as municipal workers, rural laborers and domestic workers. It is also essential that decisive progress be made in a universal salary,” Deputy Ricardo Peidro explained to Télam.
The Government had summoned the members of the tripartite body, headed by Labor Minister Claudio Moroni, to two sessions for the 18th of this month, but the meeting was postponed until Monday due to the absence in Argentina of the head of the Industrial Union Argentina (UIA), Daniel Funes de Rioja.
