As scheduled, after the meeting of the National Commission for work in private homes The first salary update of 2023 was finalized on Tuesday which will run for the five categories of domestic workers. How much will the raise be for each scale and when will they receive it.
He the increase will be 27% on the minimum wage of personnel who perform domestic tasks, to be paid in three installments of 14% in April, 7% in May and 6% in June.
The new increases will not be cumulative. And on July 25 they will make a new revision of the agreement.
Despite the deal reached on Tuesday, domestic workers are being paid monthly they will receive the 4% agreed for March in April which was formed from the last tranche of increase agreed in November 2022. This increase was for a total of 24% divided into four phases: 8% in December, 7 January, 5% February and 4% in March.
The revision measured the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary (SMVM), which will become $80,342 in April. He confirmed it this Tuesday in the Official Gazette. It will increase 26.6% in a quarter and defined when they will be charged. He also reported increases in minimum and maximum unemployment benefits.
The minimum wage will hit $87,987 in July alone.
The meeting between the government and Casas Particulares employee representatives took place in the midst of a protest by a group of workers in the sector in front of the doors of the Ministry of Labor headquarters, located at Avenida Leandro N. Alem 650, in the city of Buenos Aires.
Maid: how much they will earn in April 2023
The three increases will be applied to the last tranche of the joint agreement agreed in November, which envisaged a 4% increase for March. Therefore, with 14% set for the month of April, the hour and month worked must be paid as follows:
- For the fifth categoryand the most requested locally, that of employees for general dutiesthe salary will remain $697.11 per hour and $85,585.50 per month, with withdrawal. And $751.83 per hour and $95,170.05 per month, for those who are not retired.
- For the fourth categorythe one of assistance and care of people: $751.83 per hour and $95,170.05 per month with pickup. And $841.32 per hour and $106,057.05 per month with no withdrawals.
- For those framed in the third categorythe one of homemade: $751.83 per hour and $95,170.05 per month.
- For the second category, the staff for specific tasks; $796.29 per hour and $97,544.1 per month with pickup. And $873.24 per hour and $108,583.29 per month for non-retirers
- For the first categorythe one of supervisors: $841.32 per hour and $104,992.86 per month for retired personnel; and $921.12 and $116,950.32 for those with no withdrawal.
In addition, an additional 30% will be applied to the minimum wage for each of the categories for personnel providing assignments in the provinces of La Pampa, Río Negro, Chubut, Neuquén, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego and in the Buenos Aires district of Patagones.
With this last adjustment, and according to government sources, the annual increase in the wages of workers in private homes in the period between March 2022 and 2023 will round up 119.8%. The increase will impact the minimum wages of employees working on an hourly and monthly basis; and will benefit around 1,300,000 workers in private homes.
“I insist that parities are very strong and constitute an essential institutionality of our democracy, that organized workers and the business sector can discuss on an equal footing to maintain and improve the purchasing power of wages and to improve and adapt collective working conditions is indeed an institutional force of Argentine democracy that we highlight and protect”, said Labor Minister Kelly Olmos evaluating the parities made so far.
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Source: Clarin
