Overview
- The government is using the cross-sector Consejo de Mayo to seek consensus before sending a labor reform bill to Congress, while the CGT issued a categorical rejection.
- UIA president Martín Rappallini said weekly talks continue and there is no closed, consensual text, even as media detail a working draft of roughly 108 articles.
- The draft would extend labor rules to digital platform workers, shift labor registration to a new ARCA agency, digitize service and pay certificates, alter subcontracting liability, and redefine how seniority is counted.
- Flexibility measures include employer authority to modify tasks, variable pay components tied to performance or company conditions, a bank-of-hours regime, the option to split vacations, expanded non-remunerative benefits capped at 10% of salary, and sick-pay at 80% on a non-remunerative basis.
- Severance would remain at one month per year of service with a cap of ten salaries, exclude the annual bonus from the base, allow termination funds or private insurance, set labor credit updates by CPI plus 3% annually, and broaden essential-service rules requiring at least 75% minimum service during strikes.