Overview
- Argentina’s Congress has postponed discussion of the wide‑ranging labor reform until February 2026.
- Former labor minister Jorge Triaca describes the project as very ambitious but cautions that gray areas could increase judicialization.
- He highlights ultraactividad and its replacement, which would reopen more than 1,700 collective agreements, and questions whether company-level deals should take precedence over national or regional accords.
- Triaca says the draft clarifies what counts toward severance and creates a labor assistance fund to secure payouts, denying it reduces indemnity while pressing for clarity on how any cut to employer contributions would be financed.
- He calls the strike-language diffuse and urges focusing negotiations on measures that formalize work, citing 12 years of flat private formal employment and informality above 40%.