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Argentina Approves Voluntary Retirement System for Public Employees

Argentina's National Directorate of Roads has introduced a voluntary retirement system for its staff. The measure aligns with the state's deregulation and reform policy. Employees can move to the private sector or develop their own projects, with the option to rejoin the public sector after five years.


Argentina Approves Voluntary Retirement System for Public Employees

Buenos Aires, January 30 (NA) -- The National Directorate of Roads approved a voluntary retirement system for its staff, in line with the deregulation and state reform policy driven by the Executive Branch. The measure was issued within the framework of Joint Resolution 50/2025 of the Secretariat of State Transformation and Public Function and the Secretariat of the Treasury, which established the procedure for retirement plans or other forms of voluntary labor detachment in the national public administration. According to the Argentine News Agency, the scheme provides for stages of dissemination, consultations, and access to information so that agents can evaluate alternatives and, in case of opting for adherence, sign a detachment agreement under the terms of article 241 of the Labor Contract Law 20.744. The resolution authorizes the executive manager of Human Resources, licensed Diego Tomás Riveira, to sign on behalf of the agency the detachment agreements before the administrative labor authority, in accordance with the different models approved as annexes to the official text. Roads stated that the mechanism seeks to adjust the staffing to functional needs, improve the efficiency in the use of public resources, and facilitate that personnel can move to the private sector or develop their own projects, with the possibility of re-entering the State after five years of the end of the labor relationship. The agency also informed that it has the necessary budgetary credits to face the expense generated by the voluntary retirement system and that the areas of public employment, budget, and legal advice have intervened without raising objections.