2022 ended with the highest inflation in the last 31 years: 94.8%. And 2023 didn’t start much better. In the midst of the sharp rise in prices that does not give up, inflation in January marked 6% and the same sign is expected for February (data will be announced next week) and March. As the scenario is outlined, the the official guideline thought 60% for this year. To cushion this impact, retirees and employees are receiving bonuses ranging from $15,000 to up to $300,000 this month.
One by one, which sectors are involved:
While the Ministry of Social Development expects the payment of a new bond for April 2023. The portfolio also progresses with other aid to support vulnerable sectors such as the Mi Pieza Plan for women in poor neighborhoods or the delivery of the balance of the Food Card for the Universal Child Allowance (AUH).
Pensioners, for their part, have begun to receive the $45,000 bonus that the government announced last month that, along with the 17.04% increase, it will raise pension assets above $73,000
This reinforcement bonus will be divided into three installments of $15,000, for pensions and pensions up to two minimum assets. The rest will arrive in April and May.
It will progressively decrease according to your income.
Bonus up to $300,000: Mechanical workers. The Automobile Transport Mechanics and Allied Union (SMATA) agreed March receives an increase of 18.39% on basic salaries. The next review meeting will be in April.
As for the bonus, between $200,000 and $300,000companies have time to liquidate it until March 10th.
The “super bonus” consists of the provision of 150 hours for all terminal operators and auto parts manufacturers. The payment is different according to the category of each employee.
In what was 2022, this union has reached an annual improvement of 94.7%.
Bonus up to $200,000: the employees of the Spanish-owned company Naturgy-Ban agreed on April 2022-March 2023 parity with an annual increase of 94.8% and a bonus reaching i $170,000, to be collected in a single installment, and another of $32,000 for Gas Workers Day.
The Natural Gas Industry Managerial Staff Association (Apjgas) and STIGAS announced, at the time,that the extra payments will be paid out of February salaries, that is, they will receive until March 10th.
The bonuses are divided as follows: for Gas Workers Day -which is celebrated on March 5- a bonus of $32,500, which will be unprofitable. Meanwhile, for the $170,000 lucrative bonus, the workers will receive approximately $140,000 out of their own pockets.
Bond of $134,000: the condominium administrators reached by the agreement signed between the Single Union of Horizontal Rental Construction Workers (Suterh), the Argentine Federation of Rented and Private Construction Workers (Fateryh) and the Union of Real Estate Administrators (UADI) They will receive the last installment of the $134,000 super bonus in Marchthey will now receive $26,000.
Bonus of $100,000: the National Federation of Truck Drivers, chaired by Hugo and Pablo Moyano, announced last October an agreement with the Chamber of Employers to grant a bonus of $100,000 and a 107% wage increase for workers in the sector. In this sense, in March, hauliers will receive the first installment of the agreed bonus.
The bonus is divided into four payments, the first It goes into effect in March and is valued at $25,000. The other three installments will be paid April, May and June.
Bonus of $100,000: The union of oil workers working at Vaca Muerta and other major fields in the country agreed to a $100,000 bonus last November.
The Union of Private Oil Workers of Río Negro, Neuquén and La Pampa has defined these benefits with the chambers of the sector. The first installment of $50,000 was paid in December and the second in February.
The $100,000 bonus was given for only once as compensation for the burden that Irpef had on workers.
Within this framework, they had also set the prepayment of the salary increase signed in mid-2022 and the increase in the value of food (“Supplementary Non-Compensatory Alimony”) to $65,000.
Bonus up to $35,000: butchers. The Union of Workers and Employees of the Sausage, Tripe and Derivatives Industry (SOEICHA) when it signed the closure of its 2022 joint venture, agreed to pay a non-remunerative sum of $35,000 for March 2023.
Prior to this latest bonus, the 4,850 union members received a $17,500 bonus in February.
These pluses were agreed upon at the time of closing their 2022 parity last February. In which they achieved a cumulative increase of 107%.
Bonus of $46,000 and another of $9,555: The Association of Executive Staff of Argentine Railways (APDFA) will give a one-time bonus which will be received with March salary.
The $46,754 bonus is paid on Railroad Day, which is commemorated on March 1. And what’s being given month-to-month, in person, in March will total $9,555.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Labor has formalized a joint agreement with the sector unions which expects an annualized increase of 99%. for the period from April 2022 to March 2023.
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Source: Clarin
