In the aftermath of the strong police operation to prevent the occupation of the ministries, the government continued last night to send telegrams to lay off more than 10,000 state employees. The decision to pass the “chainsaw” again on the public sector after having eliminated it another 10,000 contracts in December This is due to the commitment made to the International Monetary Fund to reduce the fiscal deficit by 5 points this year, together with pension reform and the elimination of subsidies.
According to the latest official data, in February the central administration employed 326,000 people, including decentralized organizations and public companies, and paid $780 billion in salaries. Although this item was settled with increases below inflation, the agreement with the Fund provides that the cut in that area and “administrative reform” reach 0.5% of GDP, almost 1 trillion dollars and more of one month’s wages.
An investigation based on official and union data shows that the impact of pruning has not been uniform. In some sectors, such as the Ministry of Human Capital, the adjustment has been stronger and they represented 30% of the total of the latest layoffs. With 17,000 employees, the portfolio led by Sandra Petovello eliminated 3,600 contracts, of which just under half are concentrated in the Children, Adolescents and Family Secretariat.
Secondly, ANSES follows with 1,200 layoffsa decentralized organization that depends on the ministry and where 10% of contract positions have been reduced, including staff with fixed-term and permanent service contracts and internships, precarious methods that had been extended in previous administrations. The expectation is to save $22 billion per year.
Still in the orbit of Human Capital, the Ministry of Social Development has fired 800 employees, Culture 600, Labor more than 500 and Education almost half a thousand. The labor secretariat was one of the departments where the moments of greatest tension were experienced on Wednesday and notifications continued to arrive this evening. “We are receiving 20 dismissals, we don’t know if they are new or forgotten, it’s cruel,” ATE Trabajo reported.
Addiction has become a sensitive and strategic area Total savings: some data is missing but if we add the savings from Education, Work and Anses we have so far savings of 29,390 million pesos per year.
The Milei administration defended the decision, through the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni not renew the contracts of “15 thousand” public employees of the temporary plant whose contracts expired on March 31st. Through a resolution published in the Official Journal, it was confirmed that another 58 thousand workers who work in the same way will have their contracts extended for 90 days, until next June 30th. The Executive insists that all contracts They will be subject to scrutiny by the responsible officials of the respective departments.
Source: Clarin
