US EditionArgentina’s Top Union Sues to Halt President Milei’s Sweeping Labor Overhaul
The CGT argues the reform violates constitutional labor rights and threatens over 300,000 jobs lost since Milei took office, challenging the law in Buenos Aires courts.
- On Monday the CGT filed a lawsuit in Buenos Aires to block the reform approved Friday by Argentina's Congress, which President Javier Milei called `historic`.
- The CGT argues the law infringes constitutional principles, citing `principle of progressivity` and `protective principle`, and links reforms to over 300,000 jobs lost since late 2023.
- Amid fraught debate in Congress, the legislative process was tense between Argentina's governing party and the opposition, while last month the CGT launched a 24-hour nationwide strike and demonstrators clashed with police outside Congress.
- Courts must decide whether to admit the CGT filing, and judges could issue an injunction suspending the reform’s hiring, firing, severance and collective bargaining changes.
- By altering Argentina's half-century-old labor code, President Javier Milei aims to attract foreign investment and boost productivity in a country with about two in five workers employed off the books.
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On Monday a union filed a collective lawsuit against the labor reform of President Javier Milei in Argentina, amid the repudiation by opposition political sectors and unions that consider it unconstitutional.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. On Monday, a union filed a collective lawsuit against the labor reform of President Javier Milei in Argentina, in the midst of the repudiation by opposition political sectors and unions that consider it unconstitutional. Approved on Friday by Congress, the “Labour Modernization Law” reduces compensations, enables wage payments with goods or services, allows to extend to 12 hours the working day with a system of compensat…
The president arrived at the inauguration of the legislative year after having managed to approve a fiscal reform, a labor reform, a reform of the penal law and the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) Read
Former provincial minister warned about the effects of reforms promoted by Javier Milei and claimed clear definitions of wages, days, federalization and the future of the health system
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