The spokesperson for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, confirmed that today, Thursday, the double compensation for dismissals that Alberto Fernández ordered when he arrived in the government runs out.

Cerruti affirmed that the double compensation for dismissal “was an emergency measure” and that its extension is not justified in a context in which “unemployment continues to decline”.

“20,000 new jobs are created a month and this allows us to consider that there is a new situation in which we have to promote formal employment,” he added.

Days ago it emerged that the Executive had no intention of extending the increase in compensation for unfair dismissal, after two and a half years of validity.

This will put an end to a provision that was extended last December until this Thursday 30 June, after the decision taken in the context of the decreed employment emergency and the compensation benefit, in force since 13 December, 2019, after hiring by Alberto Fernández.

The suspension of the redundancy fund was adopted at the beginning of the pandemic and, together with the previous provision for the increase in compensation for unfair dismissal, were part of the measures to contain the increase in unemployment from 2019 and then the health crisis.

Days ago, the former senator and labor lawyer, Héctor Recalde, warned in the past few hours on his Twitter account that “it is essential that the public emergency decree on labor matters which established the ban on dismissal and double salary “.

“The causes that originated it have not only not ceased, but in some sectors they have worsened,” he added.

However, the government does not see that the latest measures have favored layoffs in the labor market and in companies they do not believe that there are major changes in the future, even if some business consultants recognize that the gradual reduction of this benefit was a “stimulus. “to accelerate exits and reduce costs for companies, as employees have begun to earn lower pay.