09/14/2021 3:48 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 9/14/2021 3:48 PM
After the blow of the results of the PASO in the Province of Buenos Aires and in the rest of the country, the Government prepares economic announcements for Thursday.
In this context, a pro-government deputy
presented a project for a salary increase for public and private workers by decree
, on behalf of joint ventures.
While the Government is studying economic measures to raise consumption, such as an increase by decree for
retirees and beneficiaries of the AUH
- apart from the 12.39% increase announced in August - now comes a proposal for an increase for public and private .
"I presented a project in Congress to grant a
minimum and uniform salary increase for all workers in a relationship of dependency
of the Public Sector and the Private Sector, on account of the salary increases agreed in parity for the following months," said Marcelo Casaretto, a 54-year-old national deputy member of the Frente de Todos bloc for Entre Ríos.
SALARY INCREASE BY DECREE.
I presented a project in Congress to grant a minimum and uniform salary increase for all workers in a relationship of dependency of the Public Sector and the Private Sector, on account of the salary increases agreed in parity pic.twitter.com/l9Nzd9xT1c
- Marcelo Casaretto (@mpcasaretto) September 14, 2021
A Public Accountant by profession, Casaretto added: "The idea is to recover the purchasing power of workers' wages and to sustain the reactivation of the economy underway.
The measure was already taken at the beginning of the Alberto Fernández government by Decree 14 / 2020
, improving wages ".
What would the mechanism of increase proposed by Casaretto be like? "The Executive Power must establish the amounts and scales of the increase to be granted, based on the increases foreseen in the approved parity, for the coming months, and must have
support
mechanisms for
small and medium-sized companies
and critical sectors, most affected by the pandemic, "said the official deputy and former Minister of Economy, Public Works and Services of Entre Ríos between 1997 and 1999.
"The economic crisis in Argentina led to a drop in GDP in 2018 and 2019, a situation that deepens in 2020 due to the effects of the pandemic, global in scope, and impacting our country. In the period 2015-2019, power purchasing power of workers' salaries lost 20%, as stated by Cecilia Todesca, deputy chief of staff, "remarked Casaretto.
In dialogue with
Clarín
, Casaretto added: "
Now the economy is recovering in an uneven way
. Some agreements are having more increases than others, so perhaps some unionist will say that they do not need it."
And he added: "That is why in the project I contemplate an increase in critical sectors that the government will have to compensate.
A general increase is needed for all branches
."
In turn, he argued with some data: "At the beginning of our government they increased by 6.4%; in the pandemic they fell 6.9% and this year they increased 0.8%. We are at the level of 2019, but it is necessary to recover the previous fall ".
A proposal for the Minister of Economy Martín Guzmán to evaluate in Paris - Photo: Noel Smart.
Optimistic forecast
In Casaretto's calculations, the economy is on the right track, but it is necessary to give a shock: "Monthly inflation is falling, and wages are gradually increasing, but it is necessary to anticipate increases expected in subsequent months. The PEN must define the amount of the increase, taking into account the situation of SMEs and critical sectors ".
"Price increases derived from inflation have an impact on the cost of the family basket of all workers, but not all receive the same increases, not even at the same time, since in some cases, salary improvements will be paid throughout of the following months, "said the deputy who is part of the ruling bloc.
“It is urgent and necessary to adopt the pertinent measures so that an increase is established by decree on account of the increases agreed or that are agreed in public and private parities that guarantee that wages increase above inflation, recovering the wages of workers Argentines, without interfering in the salary agreements to which the worker sector and the employed sector may arrive. "concluded the deputy, who has a mandate until December 2023.
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