US EditionMilei Forces Labor Reform that Argentina Resists Other Right-Wing Governments · Global Voices
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Javier Milei promised to tear down the pillars of Argentina that he inherited from Peronism to build a new country from its foundations. One of them, which resisted the onslaughts of other previous right-wing governments, is labor legislation, whose bases date back to 1974. The Senate is preparing to sanction this week a labor reform that modifies 200 articles of the Labor Contract Law and leaves it unrecognizable. Unlike the attempts made by Ca…
While waiting for Congress to become law this week on labor reform and the new juvenile penal regime, President Javier Milei writes the opening speech of ordinary sessions of Congress.According to sources cited by the news agency NA, the president will emphasize the economic plane and the march of each Ministry. In addition, he will announce multiple modifications for each of the portfolios that make up the National Cabinet. In turn, he will cha…
By Irina Hauser. Latin American Summary, February 23, 2026. He was one of the more than 500 injured in the mobilization that took place when the project was discussed in the Senate. He denounces the City Security Minister, Horacio Alberto Giménez, and the chief of the operative. “What do I have in my face?” Lucas asked him [...] La entrada Argentina. He was at the February 11 protest against the Labor Reform and lost an eye after the repression …
They were warned by several legislators of the opposition, based on what happened when Carlos Menem wanted to deregulate the Argentine economy. The result is remembered by all those who lived it, with closed SMEs, empty businesses, and a unemployment rate that reached 25%. One in four Argentines did not get work and that generated a nucleus of people who had no skills or will to enter the labor market, and that even with the reactivation of Kirc…
On 11 February, the Argentine Senate examined the reform of labour wanted by extreme right-wing president Javier Milei. At the same time, the trade unions will demonstrate to denounce a challenge to collective rights and protections. "By the magnitude of the rights it abrogates, the diversity of the issues it addresses and the seriousness of the setbacks it generates, this bill is comparable only to the reform of labour implemented under the civ…
The government begins the last week of February with a busy agenda of activities focused on the closing of the extraordinary sessions, in which it hopes to receive the final green light for the labor reform, in addition to sanctioning the new Juvenile Penal Regime and the sealed agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU). In parallel to the meetings of Cabinet and the political table to outline all the details of the official strateg…
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