Buenos Aires, December 11 (NA) – The labor reform project that the Government sent to Congress this Thursday for consideration includes the repeal of the “Journalist Statute”, established by law 12.908 in 1946, which defines the working conditions of employees in media companies.
The legal norm was enacted in December 1946 during Juan Domingo Perón's first government, thereby ratifying and elevating to the rank of law decree 7618/44 of March 25, 1944, and was published in the Official Bulletin in February 1947.
According to information confirmed by the Argentine News Agency, the labor reform project sent to the Senate and signed today by President Javier Milei upon his return from Oslo, incorporates in its article 194, within the “Repeals” chapter, the elimination of the Journalist Statute.
“Laws 12.908 and its amendments 23.947, 23.472, 23.759, 24.493, and 20.657 are repealed,” the project states.
The law to be repealed, which has been amended through various collective bargaining agreements, covers all the legal functioning of journalists, such as the pay scale, categories, and compensation system, among other aspects.
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In its text, the Journalist Statute states that its objective is “to regulate the functions, conditions, rights, and guarantees of professional journalists, including freedom of expression and thought”.
