Ismael Bermudez
10/29/2020 6:01 AM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 10/29/2020 7:38 AM
Since this month of October, the salary of workers in formal or registered private homes who complete a full working day and who perform general tasks under the modality with retirement, which represents almost 73% of the activity,
is 5.9 % lower than the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary.
Is that while the minimum wage was set at $ 18,900, that category of domestic staff since May has a remuneration of $ 17,785.50.
It is also lower than the $ 18,128.25 of the minimum retirement income that has been in force since September.
Despite these differences, the minimum salary for that category with retirement from domestic service - which includes cleaning, washing, ironing, maintenance, preparation and cooking of meals and, in general, all other typical household tasks - does not fit for the minimum, vital and mobile salary because the personnel of Private Houses are excluded from that regime.
And it is governed by what is resolved by the National Commission for Work in Private Houses, a tripartite body made up of representatives of the
State, workers and employers
with an absolute majority of the votes for the state sector, as explained by Matías Isequilla, lawyer and legal advisor to the Union of Domestic and Allied Workers (UTDA).
In the Ministry of Labor they told
Clarín
that this Commission
would be called in the next few days
by its head Roberto Picozzi.
According to Isequilla, resolution 2/2019 that established basic wages until mid-2020 has expired since last June. “On repeated occasions, the Ministry of Labor was asked to urgently summon said Commission, even with the realization of to various measures of union action, such as a march to the Ministry on October 2, which
will be repeated this Monday, November 2
".
This year, the salary of the employee of private houses had an increase of
10% in two sections
.
The first in March and the second in May, through resolution 1/2020 of the National Commission for Work in Private Houses, added Isequilla.
With the pandemic,
the Government included the domestic
worker
among the IFE beneficiaries
but, according to the UTDA report, 49.8% of the domestic workers did not receive it.
In addition, employers of private house workers were excluded from the Emergency Assistance Program for Work and Production (ATP) whereby the State paid the salaries of private workers for the equivalent of between one and 2 minimum wages.
The latest INDEC data indicates that informal or unregistered domestic staff were the most affected by the pandemic and quarantine.
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