Employer charges: they will discount up to 95% to those who hire new employees

08/06/2021 2:56 AM

• Clarín.com

• Economy

Updated 08/06/2021 8:04 AM

In times of campaign and at a time when the unemployment rate remains in double digits, the Government launched an ambitious

measure aimed at reactivating the labor market

with important tax benefits for those who hire new workers

from September and within the next 12 months .

The initiative was presented through

Decree 493/2021

, published this Friday in the

Official Gazette

, with the signatures of President Alberto Fernández, along with the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, and the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni;

of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas;

and of Economy, Martín Guzmán.

The regulations

establish that those private sector employers who hire new workers 

who participate or have participated in Educational Programs, Professional Training or Labor Intermediation will enjoy, with respect to each of the new incorporations they make,

a reduction in their contributions. employers

.

The reduction will be

95% during the first 12 months

from the month of beginning of the new employment relationship, inclusive, in the case of hiring a

woman

, a

non-binary

 person or a person with

an

accredited

disability

.

While the cut will be

90%, also for one year

, in the case of

male

employees

.

It was clarified

 in the decree that the additional rates

provided for in differential and special social security pension regimes

are excluded from the reductions

.

It was also specified that transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people are included in the provisions of the decree, whether or not they have carried out the registration rectification of sex and the change of first name and image.

Regarding workers hired part-time, the benefits stipulated in the decree

will be reduced by half

.

To access the benefit, employers must hire a worker who has participated in the last 12 months or is participating in educational, training and employment programs and / or policies and job placement.

Likewise, it was established that the new incorporation must produce

a net increase

in the personnel payroll with respect to the month immediately prior to the entry into force of the decree, which will be considered as the “base period”.

It was even pointed out that it will be considered a net increase in the payroll of personnel that arises from comparing the number of workers hired "in the accrued month in which the benefit is imputed with respect to the base period."

In accordance with the provisions of the Government, the financial aid provided for in the official programs and / or policies may be considered

"on account of the salary"

of the hired worker, including the benefit of the employer contribution cut.

Employers will be able to select applicants through the Employment Portal that was introduced this week and which is designed to link workers of all ages with the labor demand.

Who will not receive the benefit

You will not be able to access the benefit when the worker at the time of being hired has a job registered in the social security system, excluding participants in job placement programs and other programs that allow access to a formal job.

Nor will they be able to access benefits when it is a question of a worker who was declared in the General Social Security Scheme and after the contractual termination has occurred,

is reincorporated by the same employer

within 12 months, counted from the date of the untying.

The impediment also applies to those employers who

have dismissed personnel

within the last twelve months "without just cause or due to the lack or reduction of work and force majeure."

Tax benefits for new jobs

Employers who appear in the Public Registry of Employers with Labor Sanctions (REPSAL) or who have engaged in

practices of abusive use

of the benefit of reduction in contributions

are also excluded

.

According to the decree, the Ministry of Economy may establish maximum monthly and annual quotas for new labor relations to which the benefit may be applied based on the availability of budgetary income.

However, it was clarified that the benefit will be compensated with resources from the National Treasury to "

not affect the financing

of social security or the calculation corresponding to pension mobility."

According to INDEC data, in the fourth quarter of 2020, 11% of the economically active population was unemployed while 32.7% of total salaried employment was not registered in the social security system.

The unemployment rate fell to

10.2% in the first quarter of 2021

, compared to 10.4% in the same period of the previous year.

YN

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