The Government has given in to Máximo Kirchner’s request and is pushing for an increase in the minimum wage

The national government has confirmed that it will push the increases to Minimum salary, vital and movil scheduled for 2022, after deputy Máximo Kirchner presented a request about it to the Chamber of Deputies last week.

The proposal came two days after INDEC reported the inflation rate for April, which would be more than 5%.

The Ministry of Economy reported that Labor Minister Claudio Moroni signed the law which on June 1, The minimum vital and mobile salary will be $ 45,540 for monthly workers, and set the hourly rate for daily workers at $ 227.70.

Meanwhile, on August 1, the minimum wage up to $ 47,850 for monthly workers and the amount of time for daily workers would be $ 239.30.

In addition, the minimum and maximum amounts of unemployment benefit will be updated. The scales are as follows: $ 12,650 and $ 21,083, respectively, on June 1. And $ 13,292 and $ 22,153, respectively, on August 1. There will also be improvements to the program. Strengthen Work.

Last week, Máximo Kirchner presented a draft resolution to the Chamber of Deputies, in which he demanded to end the payment of increases in the minimum vital and mobile wage with a salary in July, which will be paid in August.

“The bill allows the 45% increase scheduled in March by the Salary Council to be charged in August and not in January 2023“, they explained from the environment of the former president of the Front of All bloc.

“This decision will allow the minimum vital and mobile wage to reach $ 47,850.00 (forty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty pesos) on July 1, 2022 and effectively exceed the current and expected inflation index,” it said. of the project bearing the signatures of Máximo Kirchner, Hugo Yasky, Juan Carlos Alderete and Sergio Palazzo, among others. Everyone voted against the agreement with the IMF.

Among the arguments, the vice president’s son stressed inflationary escalation.

“During 2022, the loss of purchasing power due to excessive price increases demonstrates the need to implement urgent measures. Already in the first quarter of the year, accumulated inflation reflects 16.1%. If we expect the pace of price increase to remain.at this pace, for the month of December it will have a total percentage of more than 60%, higher than the increase of the minimum vital and mobile salary scheduled, which will reach only 45% in the month of December, ”the project said. on its foundations.

And he concluded, in line with what was said after Cristina Kirchner’s days in Chaco: “Our commitment as a political space is to protect the wages of male and female workers, implying that they have beaten inflation and restored what was lost in time. of macro management. This measure, although insufficient, seeks to comply with it“.

The vice president, during an action in which he was too cruel to Alberto Fernández’s economic management, made sure that the Frente de Todos was deceiving those who voted for him. “We are not honored with so much trust, so much love and so much hope they have placed in us”assured.