2023-08-30 19:17:00
The provinces of Córdoba, Catamarca, Jujuy, Entre Ríos, Misiones, Neuquén, La Pampa, Salta, Santa Cruz, Tucumán and Santa Fe, as well as the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires announced on Tuesday that they will not pay their public employees the $60,000 bonus announced by the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, for registered workers in the public and private sectors.
In the last few hours, San Juan and Chaco joined the list of districts that do not plan to pay for the measure of the national government. For their part, they confirmed that the provinces of Mendoza, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero and Chubut. Meanwhile, the remaining six provinces are defining what to do, according to NA.
The governor of Santa Fe, Omar Perotti justified the decision on the basis that the bonus established by the national government “has a lot to do with what each negotiated and generated in their jurisdictions”.
According to the Santa Fe president, the province had already agreed on “a mechanism once morest any instance of inflation lag, such as automatic or ‘trigger’ clauses to preserve purchasing power”.
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“What is being used in some places is because there was salary discussions that did not contemplate in any way the mismatch that was generated with inflation and devaluation. Here the province has protected these instances,” said Perotti.
Regarding this mechanism, he explained that “They are regarding establishing monthly percentages that, if they are not reached because the price index exceeded it, that gap is automatically liquidated, be it two or three points, so that purchasing power is maintained”.
Cordoba’s decision
“With the increase that we have granted to the entire public sector, no worker will have an increase of less than 33,000 pesos. With which, What was announced by the national government as an exceptional, transitory, non-remunerative measure and on account of future increases, in Córdoba it is already consolidated with the percentage with which the ranks have”, indicated Julio César Comello, Secretary General of the Government of Córdoba, in Radio Pulxo.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
The Buenos aires cityAlong the same lines, he also slipped that he has already given raises to municipal employees who closely follow this year’s inflation, “with monthly parities and in some cases up to biweekly,” according to the NA agency.
Catamarca
The provincial government still has an active $120,000 bond to be paid in 6 installments which was announced in May, to which two additional installments of $20,000 each were added before the end of the year.
Between rivers
The Governor of Entre Rios, Gustavo Bordet, Clarified that Provincial public employees will not receive the fixed sum suggested because they are conducting their own salary negotiations.
“Today we are with a 76% accumulated increase, with the 5% that we agreed on this month, and we are 15 or 16 points above inflation. Likewise, we continue with open joint ventures and working,” said the Entre Ríos president.
Gerardo Zamora announced a $400,000 bonus for public employees in Santiago del Estero
Jujuy
The Minister of Finance of Jujuy, Charles Sadir, He pointed out that the province will not pay the bonus announced by the national government.
“This is one electoralist measure dictated by Minister Massa in Nation and also without strictly knowing the financial situation of each province”.
“We made many modifications, we have advanced an amount and there is a great recovery of salaries in Jujuy, well above the accumulated inflation that is 60%. We have made a great effort to improve salaries and we Today we are not in a position to face a bonus, I discard it outright unless they send the resources,” Sadir told Jujuy al Día.
The Pampa
The governor of La Pampa, Sergio ZiliottoHe said that the province will not adhere to the payment of the fixed sum because the national government “removed this measure for national employees.”
“We in La Pampa We have guaranteed trigger clause for four years above the level of inflation and today there is a greater effort for workers who have family responsibilities,” added Ziliotto.
Missions
The Minister of Finance of Misiones, Adolfo Safranjustified the decision not to pay the bonus by explaining that they gave “increases in July and August and there are other sectors such as teaching and the security forces that will receive increases in September.”
The official interpreted that Massa “applies to the private sphere because in many sectors no salary increases were planned for these months and that bonus is on account of the parities”. In this framework, what must be done is “review to see if the agreed increase is in line with the economic reality that is experienced from what happened following August 14 “Safran added.
Neuquen
The Government of Neuquén, through a statement, announced that “the province does not plan to grant fixed sums to state employees. All the workers are under Collective Agreements and it was agreed jointly with all the unions“.
The justification is that “there is a agreement in force with adjustment for the single CPI in the country that contemplates precisely these jumps in the economic variables”.
Tucuman
The governor Juan Manzur announced that it will not face the payment of the bonus and that the idea is to incorporate the recomposition to the salary increase that is being discussed in the parities.
“The state salary will be recomposed to the extent of our possibilities,” he told La Gaceta.
Salta
The provincial government minister, Ricardo Villada, said that the district “does not have” the resources for this extraordinary aid “without the help of the Nation.” And he added: “Imagine the municipalities.”
Santa Cruz
the patagonian province had provided in July for the active and passive personnel of the province the payment of a one-time bonus of $100,000 for those who earn a gross salary of less than 300,000 pesos, and $60,000, for those who exceed that income.
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