08/12/2020 - 11:15
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, assured this Wednesday that the double compensation "will continue as long as necessary" in the midst of the economic crisis exacerbated by the coronavirus and that it is necessary to "make the dismissed more expensive."
After praising the agreement signed between the CGT and the UIA that allows suspension of workers in exchange for the payment of 75% of their net salary, the official stressed that employers who lay off workers must pay double severance pay "until this stabilizes." and he remarked that "we must try to make dismissal the last measure and one of the ways is to make it more expensive."
"We must try to create the conditions so that (layoffs) do not happen and that it is the last measure the company should take. The idea is not only to prohibit and aggravate things to protect employment contracts, but to continue attending the companies, "Moroni said in statements to Futurock .
The head of the Labor portfolio was optimistic in relation to the indicators of the last month on job creation and said that they allow us to think that the terrible economic consequences of the pandemic are being left behind, at least in part.
"We have minimized the damage caused by the pandemic a lot and in the last month we are seeing that what did not exist began, which was the creation of employment. Employment began to appear again in industry, construction, services and finance. And if We add the reports released by the Ministry of Production, which says that the industry is at pre-pandemic levels, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic, "said the official.
And he added: "It seems that we are leaving behind, at least in part, the terrible economic consequences of the pandemic."
Praising the government's policies to try to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic, he stressed that "the damage has been greatly minimized."
"What we did through the prohibition of layoffs, the prohibition of suspensions without payments, and the assistance to companies to pay wages through direct subsidies, gave us an excellent result in comparative terms. Argentina has had job losses in the pandemic but lost 2.5 points against 19 Canada, 14 almost from the United States, 12 in Chile and more than 7 in Brazil, "he said.
Moroni also referred to the teleworking law, which aroused criticism from businessmen, and questioned Mario Pergolini, who was one of the harshest after its approval in Congress.
"It seems nonsense to me. I clearly believe that he did not read the law. The outbursts are over and based on ignorance," Moroni launched.
Pergolini, first on his radio show and later in an interview with Jorge Lanata, said that, with the approval of the law, the legislators "urinated on a form that was going to give people more work."
"A person who could have two or three jobs, short, simple, take him to the methodology of the 60s or 70s that has not changed," he said. And he wondered: “So who is going to hire people that way? This system makes those who can give work no longer want to do it ”.
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