Argentina's Government Aims to Pass Labor Reform in the Senate

The national government is advancing legislative safeguards in the Senate to pass the labor reform law during the first half of February. This political strategy combines technical negotiations, confidential contacts with the opposition willing to dialogue, and the convening of an extraordinary session. The commission, led by lawyer Josefina Tajes, will begin its operations this Monday. Its task is to unify suggestions, objections, and alternative proposals to the text approved by the commission last December. In this context, the demands raised by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) will also be analyzed. Despite its critical stance on the reform, the CGT seeks to maintain dialogue channels with the ruling party. This task will fall to Patricia Bullrich. In addition to leading the libertarian bloc, she will be the project's rapporteur as president of the Labor and Social Security Committee. The government's inner circle is showing cautious optimism. Meanwhile, alerts have been raised in the Senate due to an administrative situation that has caused cross-party discomfort. Patricia Bullrich, head of the ruling bloc in the Senate, has designed a preliminary technical working stage to channel modification requests from opposition sectors and the labor movement. At least one provincial force has already anticipated its support, suggesting that there are political agreements that go beyond the strictly technical debate of the bill's articles. Once the potential changes to the majority bill are defined, the ruling party must resolve the strategy for the session in the chamber, for both the general vote and the article-by-article treatment. 'We are advancing calmly; in laws of this type, one must watch the entire movie and not the snapshot,' stated a key actor in the parliamentary negotiations.