US EditionMilei's labor reform drive sets up clash with Argentina unions
Milei’s reform aims to deregulate labor markets by easing firing and limiting union power; nearly 40% of workers lack formal contracts, unions oppose the bill as regressive.
- On Wednesday outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, demonstrators hurled stones, bottle bombs and at least one Molotov while riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse them.
- President Javier Milei's proposed labour reform would ease hiring and firing, reduce severance calculations, limit strike rights, and curb holiday pay, but the General Confederation of Labor and opposition parties dispute it will create jobs.
- Authorities deployed federal forces and an anti-picket protocol, AFP witnessed injuries to one police officer and one protester, and media estimated at least 20 people were arrested.
- Under parliamentary procedure, the bill will be voted as a whole and then by title, heading to the Chamber of Deputies if approved, with a goal to adopt by March.
- Critics argue the reform will exacerbate precarious work, with Soledad Mosquera calling it `will mean complete slavery in terms of working conditions` and Juan Carlos Giordano describing it as `a pro-business, slave-like labor reform`.
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Argentina's President Javier Milei wants to break the encrusted labour market. He has taken the first hurdle for reforms that remind Germany of "Hartz laws." The resistance on the streets is great – but experts hope that the country will become more attractive for investors.
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, to oppose labor reforms that would limit the right to strike and eliminate employment benefits. The protests come as the country's Senate debates legislation backed by libertarian President Javier Milei. The reforms are seen as an attempt to curb the power of organized labor. Milei has argued that the reforms are essential to realizing his vision of a free-ma…
The city of Buenos Aires suffers a day of strong altercations in its streets during the vote. Now the 26 chapters of the new law must be endorsed one by one by the senators Read
The ultra-rightist president considers the labor reform key to his economic model despite ending the conquests of the Argentine workers’ movement. The norm must now pass to the Chamber of Deputies for approval The labor reform that Javier Milei considers central to his ultra-liberal model and that ends with conquests of the Argentine workers’ movement has been resisted in the streets outside the Congress in Buenos Aires and other cities of Argen…
With 42 votes in favour and 30 against, the political reform will be discussed in the next few days by Members, who can still review the text.
One by one, how each senator voted for the Labor Reform
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