Overview
- The administration is concentrating its legislative effort on the labor overhaul in February extraordinary sessions and is weighing deferring the Penal Code debate and other items to the March ordinary period.
- A technical commission will operate January 16–26 under Senate advisor Josefina Tajes, with staff work starting January 19, while the CGT confirmed it will not take part in the consultative process.
- The working target for final approval is February 10–11, with the government’s political table meeting Friday to lock strategy as Patricia Bullrich leads Senate talks and Martín Menem and Diego Santilli work the lower house and governors.
- Provincial leaders are pressing fiscal objections to Article 191, which cuts top corporate income tax rates and could trim shared revenues, and possible compensatory measures are part of ongoing negotiations.
- The bill contemplates a Labor Assistance Fund financed by a 3% employer contribution now tied to social security, drawing warnings about funding gaps that executive officials dismiss as manageable and not affecting pensions.