\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Argentina\u2019s largest trade union organization, will file two legal complaints against the labor reform approved last week by Congress. The announcement was on Monday and specified that it will reach the Labor Court and the Administrative Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe trust in a republican power such as the judiciary, in its objectivity and in its commitment to uphold the National Constitution,\u201d said Jorge Sola, one of the three co-secretaries general of the CGT, in a press conference.<\/p>\n
The so-called \u201cLabor Modernization Act\u201d, pushed by the government, seeks to weaken trade unions and lower costs for businesses. It includes cuts to severance pay and an extension of the maximum working day from eight to 12 hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is false that the enactment of this Labor Reform Law seeks to increase employment and bring informal workers into the formal sector,\u201d said a statement by the CGT.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know very well that this process cannot be improved by reducing workers\u2019 rights or rolling back the legal framework to times closer to servitude or slavery,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
According to a statement by the CGT, the law violates two legal principles \u2014 progressivity (or non-regression), which prevents unjustified measures that represent a step backwards in acquired labor rights, and protectivity, which seeks to prevent employers\u2019 abuse against the \u201cweaker party\u201d, the employee.<\/p>\n
The communiqu\u00e9 said that the law also affects article 14 bis of the National Constitution, \u201cin rights such as protection against arbitrary dismissal, the right to strike, collective bargaining, free association, freedom of association, and social security, among other items.\u201d<\/p>\n
Opinions on the law<\/p>\n
Juan Manuel Ottaviano, a labor lawyer and academic, said the law is \u201cunconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRestrictions on the right to strike, the decentralization of collective bargaining, and the impact on individual rights, such as the reduction of severance pay, the replacement of overtime pay with systems such as time banks, represent a regression in labor and social protection,\u201d he told the Herald.<\/p>\n
\u201c(President) Milei\u2019s economic program is causing a very deep recession in job-creating sectors such as the manufacturing industry,\u201d he added, noting that the labor reform won\u2019t create jobs.<\/p>\n
Mart\u00edn Rappallini, head of the powerful Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), which participated in the drafting of the bill, said the reform will \u201cchange the labor regime from being focused on litigation and conflict to productivity and competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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