They postponed the meeting of the Council on the minimum wage: it will be August 22

The Ministry of Labor, Labor and Social Security announced this Thursday the postponement of the meeting of the National Council for Employment, Productivity and the vital and mobile minimum wage. It will be next Monday, August 22 at 3pm.

With Resolution 8/2022, published in the Official Gazette, the modification of the date and time of the call was reported. It was originally scheduled for Thursday 18 August at 12.

The portfolio that drives Claudio Moroni did “At the request of the CGT and the UIA itself, and because on August 18 its president (Daniel Funes de Rioja) will not be in the country “.

Also summoned the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni a second session for 17 on the same day. The meetings will be held by videoconference.

In the recitals, the work portfolio explains that the provision was adopted “before various proposals made in relation to the fixed date and in order to guarantee the participation of all the members of the aforementioned bodies”.

Salary Council: date change

Last Thursday the Government formalized the convocation of the Wages Council with resolution 7/2022, signed by the Minister of Labor, Carlos Moroni, and published in the Official Gazette, after the Minister of the Economy, Sergio Massa, announced his willingness to meet with businessmen and union leaders.

“We will convene the employers and workers bodies next Thursday 11 in order to guarantee a mechanism that allows private sector workers to recover their income, which includes the improvement of family allowances,” Massa said in his first press conference at Palazzo del Tesoro. .

The official had pointed this out “Wages between 50,000 and 150,000 pesos are the hardest hitthere we will concentrate the study of the modification of family allowances “.

In the last meeting of the Council, that of March 16, the new amounts of the minimum wage and unemployment benefits were agreed, and the possibility of “reviewing” what was agreed was also established.

In this instance, an increase of 45% was approved on the basis of the month of March in four tranches.

At the request of a group of deputies from the Frente de Todos (FdT) led by Máximo Kirchner, The government decided in May to bring forward the validity of the minimum wage increase, vital and mobile what happened June 1, $ 45,540.

While this month it reached $ 47,850 for monthly workers and $ 239.30 is the hour value for day workers.

The minimum and maximum amounts of the unemployment benefit was $ 13,292 and $ 22,153, according to the provision signed by Minister Moroni and approved by former Economy Minister Martín Guzmán.

On that occasion, in the preamble of the provision, the Government remarked that “Payback recovery is a priority and it constitutes a necessary condition for the economy to support continuous reactivation “and” for this it is necessary to generate all the necessary tools for workers’ income to grow in real terms “.

The National Council for Employment, Productivity and Minimum Wage, viable and mobile is chaired by the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, and brings together 32 members, 16 from workers and 16 from employers.

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