Argentina's Government Accelerates Labor Reform

The labor reform is considered a priority by the Casa Rosada, and the Government aims to turn it into law next month. In parallel, this same Friday, the technical team promoted by Bullrich will begin to function in the Senate, which will be in charge of reviewing existing proposals and analyzing possible adjustments. Then, between January 26 and February 10, political meetings between senators will begin in preparation for the session in the chamber. At the Casa Rosada, they are optimistic about the parliamentary scenario, especially after the recent approval of the Budget in the Senate. That same day, in parallel, the technical teams designated in the Senate will begin to work to polish the most sensitive aspects of the project. According to official sources, in the political meeting, the head of the libertarian bloc in the Senate, Patricia Bullrich, the presidential advisor Santiago Caputo, the Minister of the Interior Diego Santilli, and the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, will participate. “It is a reasonable law, not an extreme flexibilization,” they repeat in the ruling party, which will have as main political negotiators Bullrich, Santilli, Menem, and the Undersecretary of Institutional Management, Eduardo “Lule” Menem. The parliamentary strategy contemplates a “mirror” work between the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, with the intention that the text approved in the upper chamber be replicated without modifications in the lower chamber, to accelerate the final sanction. Between January 16 and 26, the technical team led by lawyer Josefina Tajes, linked to Bullrich's space, will work with the mission to monitor proposals and order the debate. Buenos Aires, January 12, 2026 – Total News Agency – TNA – A month before the formal debate begins in the Senate, the Government has simultaneously launched the political machinery and technical teams to advance with the labor reform, one of the central projects of the so-called “second generation” of reforms promoted by the Javier Milei administration. “For the law to pass, it must have incentives,” they recognize in the ruling party, which bets on closing agreements without giving up the central guidelines of the reform. Sources consulted: Casa Rosada; official sources of the National Government; Senate of the Nation; Chamber of Deputies; statements from officials and leaders of the ruling party. It will be the first meeting of the year and will focus on both the final definitions of the bill and the legislative strategy for the coming weeks. In the Executive, they do not rule out that the General Secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei, will also join. The meeting will be headed by Adorni and will seek to order the political roadmap for the parliamentary debate, which the ruling party intends to initiate in the chamber between February 10 and 11. The intention is to resolve those aspects without altering the general spirit of the reform. The Government is willing to dialogue with governors and with sectors of the opposition considered “dialogist” to gather the necessary votes, but clarifies that the conversations will be oriented to “incorporate” nuances and not to eliminate central axes of the project. The official objective is to arrive at the chamber with a practically closed text and achieve its approval during February. The Head of Cabinet, Manuel Adorni, convened the political table for next Friday, January 16, at the Casa Rosada. “There are no major modifications,” official sources assure, although they recognize that adjustments must be made in the tax chapter. That point is directly linked to the fall of chapter 11 of the 2026 Budget, rejected in December. According to what has transpired from the Executive, no substantial changes are foreseen regarding the text that received a favorable report on December 18. They admit that in conversations with governors, issues of resources and tax matters will arise. “There are points that are not going to change under any circumstances,” they emphasize near the President, while maintaining that the initiative reflects Milei's vision of the labor market. In Caputo's circle, they agree that the current text has already undergone several modifications compared to the original version that emerged from the Council of May, so they rule out introducing new structural changes. “With that chapter out, there are tax issues within labor law that need to be ordered,” they admitted from the Casa Rosada.