National deputy and representative of the Argentine Workers' Central (CTA), Hugo Yasky, stated that the upcoming labor reform proposed by the government is not intended to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or informal workers, but rather fulfills commitments made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and serves the interests of large corporations.
The lawmaker asserted that the true purpose of the initiative is to lead the labor movement to "absolute helplessness," allowing for total labor flexibility, dismissal without cause, and the precariousness of employment. In an interview with Splendid AM 990, Yasky explained that the reform proposal was "expected because the government made commitments to the IMF, then to the government of the United States" and added that "the grouping of large business chambers here, represented by the island of Amyam, consists of large North American multinational corporations, has been intensively pushing for a reform" as a "return of that assistance" in recent months.
The deputy criticized these "very powerful business groups that are also large corporations... disguising themselves with a discourse as if they were talking about SMEs," ensuring that the goal is to "take the labor movement back to the situation it had in 1930, approximately before Peronism existed in this country and labor laws."
According to the head of the CTA, achieving "the absolute helplessness of workers" is a kind of "wet dream" for the business sector, as it would allow companies to "set wages," "flexibilize and precarious employment," "change working hours as they please," and "dismiss without cause." He pointed out that they are working on "proposals for what a map of labor reforms should look like that actually addresses the problems that need to be solved," and affirmed that the government's proposal does not mention crucial issues such as "the main two issues we have: women in absolute informality and platform workers, who are the other large contingent" of informality.
The CTA representative named several deputies of union extraction from different centrals who share this critical stance, including "Sergio Palazo, Mario Manríquez, another comrade Gómez from Luz y Fuerza, Santiago Pablo Caros, Vanessa Siley, and myself," and anticipated that they hope to count on the support of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).
Finally, Yasky lamented that the government "is thinking about how to crush existing rights, not how to generate new rights" and affirmed that it is urgent to legislate on modern, ignored issues such as "the issue of platform workers" and the updating of the "telework" law, in addition to "the labor insertion of young people."
The deputy emphasized that the proposal is, in the end, what under the pompous name of "reform" seeks to roll back labor rights to their "essential" forms of that era.
Union unanimity for rejection Deputy Yasky emphasized the unanimity among union-extracted legislators in their position of rejecting the Executive's project.
