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Argentine Peronist Leader Slams Labor Reform Bill

José Mayans, head of the Justicialist bloc, called the labor reform project a "repugnantly gorilla law" that will severely harm workers, retirees, and pensioners in Argentina. He predicted judicial conflicts and accused the authors of violating constitutional rights.


Argentine Peronist Leader Slams Labor Reform Bill

Buenos Aires, February 27 (NA) -- The head of the Justicialist bloc, José Mayans, strongly attacked the labor reform project, which he described as "a repugnantly gorilla law made by gorillas to severely affect the worker, the retiree, and the Argentine pensioner". In his closing speech, the man from Formosa denounced an "express treatment of a law that affects 20 million people," and predicted that "it is headed straight for a judicial conflict." "It was born bad and will end badly," he indicated, adding that "it is an unconsulted project, made by law firms of businessmen who are against the rights of workers." "This breaks the protective principle," he pointed out. The opposition legislator also warned that with the labor reform, "the representation of workers is weakened so that there is no one to defend labor rights." "This is a repugnantly gorilla law," Mayans sentenced, decisively, as compiled by the Argentine News Agency. "It terribly harms the worker!" he protested. Regarding the Labor Assistance Fund, Mayans called it "an open robbery of retirees and pensioners." "And it is blatantly unconstitutional because it violates article 14 bis of the Constitution." In summary: a gorilla law made by gorillas to severely affect the worker, the retiree, and the Argentine pensioner." "It is an anti-worker law. That is what we are dealing with here," he lashed out. "The processing of this law is vitiated of nullity," Mayans pointed out, and continued: "Now they come with the lie of labor modernization." According to his analysis, "the worker only wants a dignified life and with this law we are ruining that possibility because he will not have enough time in his life to support his family" since "the worker only has his time." "Let them stop lying!"