Overview
- In the case “Valdés, Carlos Alberto v. Instituto de Salta Cía. de Seguros de Vida SA y otro” (Expte. 49351/2017), the court set RIPTE as the index to update interest on workplace‑accident indemnities even for events before 2019.
- The ruling overturns a Sala IV decision of the National Labor Appeals Chamber that had declared Article 7 of Law 23.928 unconstitutional.
- Judges Inés Weinberg, Marcela De Langhe and Santiago Otamendi formed the majority, Luis Lozano issued a concurring opinion, and Alicia Ruiz dissented.
- The TSJ grounded the criterion in DNU 669/2019, which remains in force after Congress did not reject it, and it consolidates the court’s October Boulanger precedent validating RIPTE.
- The standard will be applied to more than 1,000 similar cases pending before the TSJ and is expected to yield lower adjustments than the Chamber’s prior methodology.