The mega decree announced and signed on Wednesday by President Javier Milei and published on Thursday in the Official Journal left a lot of room for cuts. Among the 360 articles contained in the document there is one that directly affects domestic workers. What the new law says, what changes and how much they will charge in January per hour and per month, according to each category.
DNU 70/2023 published in the Official Journal has repealed article 50 of law 26.844 of the special regime of employment contracts for staff in private homes. As, Sanctions imposed for failure to register work are eliminatedillegal work or poor registration.
Translated for Casas Particulares employees it means that they will stop collecting that fine or what they usually call double compensation. “In the same sense as the formal worker, eliminates the aggravation of severance pay“, the tax official, Sebastián Domínguez, explained to Clarín.
“The regime of the law on private home workers is 26,844 and article 50 which establishes it the doubling of seniority is envisaged in cases of poor or non-registration, i.e. illegal work”, coincidence, Dr. Silvana Iudkovsky. And she continued: “What Article 50 established is what is called compensatory aggravation. This new decree would eliminate them.”
“The intention, if you read the other articles of the decree, is to eliminate fines for having illegal workers or for having them poorly registered”, explained the specialist. And he added: “I believe that what we are looking for is a simplification, it is not that we are trying to encourage illegal work because in fact workers can at any time order that their contributions and contributions be accounted for, and possibly when they leave and if you want retire, you can ask to be issued the respective certificate demonstrating the employer’s obligation to comply with its tax obligations that have to do with AFIP registration and to comply with labor legislation.
In this regard, Domínguez added that “the Government understands this with this type of elimination labor costs are lowered. If you look at it from the employer’s point of view, he is simplifying it. If you look at it from the employee’s point of view, she is obviously leaving some rights aside. “There is no regulation yet.”
“We need to see whether this elimination increases employment or, on the contrary, employees begin not to sign up because now the cost risk is lower,” added the tax official. “We will see how it will evolve in the coming months,” he concluded.
The sentence so far was two months per year of service.
What has changed with the new DNU
ARTICLE 58.- Article 50 of law no. 26,844 is repealed.
ARTICLE 50. — Aggravation due to absence and/or lack of registration. The allowances provided for in article 48 of this law, or those that will replace them in the future, will be doubled in the case of an employment relationship which was not registered or was poorly registered at the time of dismissal.
Domestic workers: how much they will earn per hour and per month, according to each category
Domestic workers will receive a 10% wage increase in January, corresponding to the last tranche of the agreement signed in October 2023. This increase, which reaches 32% in total, divided into three installments of 12%, 10% and 10%.
Domestic employees who receive the monthly payment will receive the following amounts in January:
1st category – Supervisor
- With withdrawal: $213,159.3 monthly.
- Without withdrawal: $237,435.5 monthly.
2nd category – Personnel for specific tasks
- With withdrawal: $198,037 per month.
- Without withdrawal: $220,256 monthly.
3rd – Homemade
- $193,217 per month.
4th Category – Care of people:
- With collection: $193,217 monthly.
- Without withdrawal: $215,320 monthly.
5th category – General duty personnel
- With withdrawal: $173,758 per month.
- Without withdrawal: $193,217 per month.
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Source: Clarin
