Ismael Bermudez
06/09/2021 10:14
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 06/09/2021 10:14
The Ministry of Labor convened for Friday, June 11 at 11 am the National Commission for Work in Private Houses (CNTCP) - a kind of joint representation of the State, unions and employers - to set
"the increase in minimum wages ”Of domestic staff
.
It is discounted that increases in quotas will be approved that will extend until the beginning of 2022.
In jobs, domestic staff is
one of the most numerous in the country
.
According to the latest INDEC data (from the fourth quarter 2020), there are
1,478,000 people
, of which 511,000 are registered and 967,000 are not registered.
According to Labor, with effective contributions to Social Security, in March there were 471,344 contributions from wage earners of Casa Particulares compared to 498,034 in the same month of 2020.
The maximum level of contributors was reached in October 2019
with 501,319 payments.
That's 30,000 fewer records.
This year, the sector received
an increase of 8% in February and 10% in April,
which complemented those initially agreed for 2020. And it is very likely that the joint 2021 will also close with staggered increases, as happened with the minimum living wage and mobile (SMVM), which will have
seven non-cumulative tranches
from April to next February until reaching 35%.
The wages of the sector have been outdated.
The minimum wage for private house workers who work a full day and who perform general tasks under the modality "with retirement"
since April has a gross remuneration of $ 22,765.
This category with retirement that includes cleaning, washing, ironing, maintenance, preparation and cooking of meals and, in general, all other typical household tasks is the largest in the sector: it
comprises 78%.
It is
10% lower than the minimum wage
(SMVM), which since June is $ 25,272.
And it is also lower than the minimum retirement that from this month is $ 23,064.70.
This happens because the workers of Private Houses
are excluded from the general
SMVM system and have their own regime.
For their part, employers of workers from Private Houses went through the difficulties of the pandemic and quarantine
without receiving aid
from the Emergency Assistance Program for Work and Production (ATP) for which the State paid the salaries of private workers for the equivalent of between one and 2 times the minimum wage.
And they are not included in Repro II
even though with the restrictions they had to pay the salaries of the employees who could not work.
Employers reached by Earnings can deduct this year
from the tax base
payments to domestic service personnel
and social contributions up to $ 167,678.40 in the year.
Represents a relief of up to $ 58,687 in the year.
Official data indicates that in 2020 employers deducted the allowed amount of Earnings from
211,663 domestic workers.
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