The Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Axel Kicillof, participated in a march on Wednesday in the vicinity of the Congress to protest the labor reform bill promoted by the national government, which was being debated in the Senate chamber. "We are surrounded by a multitude that is doing what must be done: manifesting to express that the rights of workers are at stake," Kicillof stated. During the mobilization, the provincial governor was accompanied by members of the provincial cabinet, mayors, and activists from the 'Right to the Future' movement. "It is a lie that this is a law that helps informal workers and those in worse conditions," Kicillof emphasized. He said that those promoting this law claim that the country's problem is that it is too expensive to fire workers. "They should explain it to the 296,000 people fired in the last two years due to Javier Milei," the governor added. According to the Buenos Aires governor, layoffs, suspensions, job loss, and wage reductions are not linked to labor laws, but to the national government's economic policy. "Evidence and experience, both international and our own, show that labor legislation neither creates nor destroys jobs. In fact, at the time when the most employment was created in Argentina after the 2001 crisis, under the governments of Néstor and Cristina, the cycle began with double severance pay and no employer was afraid to hire," he recalled. Kicillof warned that there is "a lot of deception" in the discussion about labor reform: "They have said that if the law is passed, workers will be able to speak with their bosses and be free to take vacations whenever they want." "They are scammers: in an asymmetric relationship, the one who will decide is the employer, who has more power. They are coming to disrupt the lives of many families: parents will have to be working while their children are on vacation," he predicted.
