In the midst of strong inflation, the data for which will be released this week, and with salaries that are not enough, the Government convened the National Council for Employment, Productivity and the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage to analyze new increases for this year.
The call, embodied in Resolution 1/2023 published this Monday in the Official Gazette with the signature of the Minister of Labor of the Nation, Raquel "Kelly" Olmos, was set
for March 21 at 4:00 p.m. and will be held by through a virtual platform.
In March the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage
rose to $69,500 in the last of the four tranches of the 20% increase
(7% in December, 6% in January, 4% in February and 3% in March) agreed last November .
The amounts were agreed by trade unionists from the three labor centrals and leaders of the business chambers that negotiated on November 22, supervised by the Ministry of Labor.
In addition to updating the minimum, vital and mobile credit, the values of unemployment benefits
are also renewed .
Salary Council: results of the last meeting of 2022
With the meeting held in November last year, the result of which extends until March 2023,
the salary floor accumulated an increase of 110.5% year-on-year
.
The improvement also directly impacts the amount of social plans financed by the State: in the case of the Potenciar Trabajo plan, the amount of the benefit received by 1.36 million people -currently at $28,950- will reach $28,950 in March of next year. 34,570 (half the minimum wage)
.
From the Ministry of Labor, headed by Kelly Olmos, they explained that if it is taken into account that
last March the salary floor was $33,000
, the total annualized increase to March 2023 when the minimum climbs to $69,500 will be 110, 5%.
Meanwhile, between March and December the accumulated improvement was 82.5% when the CPI variation reported by INDEC reached 76.6% between January and last October.
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