Argentina: Ministry of Justice dismisses 2,400 workers

Published at: 18/12/2024 11:07 AM

The Argentine Justice Minister, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, announced about 2,400 layoffs and a 50% reduction in salaries for another 2,000 workers. The dismissals will fall on the alleged irregular contracts of the cooperative entity, the Association of Automotive Dealers of the Argentine Republic (ACARA).

The Government also stated that the payment of incentives to staff, which represented an annual expenditure of 15.6 billion Argentine pesos, will be eliminated. It is excused because previous administrations used incentives to “hire employees irregularly” and “pay incentives discretionally and arbitrarily, evading the controls of the National Public Employment System (SINEP)”.

As a protest, the workers staged a sit-in in the work space. The ACARA assured that the measure will affect 90 percent of the ministerial staff and more than 4,000 families will lose part of their income.

In a statement, the workers have indicated that “we are not responsible for the forms of hiring they assign to us or the way in which wage supplements are provided in the face of low salaries in the public administration”.

Mazo News Team