At the end of the month the government would carry out one of the largest public sector personnel cuts of its administration.
ATE warned about a cut of 70,000 people, something that the government describes as
“unrealistic”
and
“very rude
. ”
In fact, according to the statistics prepared quarterly by INDEC on the staffing of the public administration as of December of last year,
the total number of personnel in all ministries and the Chief of Staff amounted to 53,871 employees.
But where the most employees are found are in decentralized organizations: CONICET, for example, has 27,000 workers, AFIP 22,200.
Operadora Ferroviaria, Banco Nación, Correo Argentino, AYSA and Aerolíneas
have 210,000 employees.
At the Casa Rosada they confirmed to
Clarín
that
the task will depend on Nicolás Posse
, who ordered internal audits on each department.
The Secretariat of Management and Public Employment, which depends on the Chief of Staff, is currently undergoing the resignation of its highest authorities: first Armando Guibert, stained by the increase in salaries of officials, and during this week the departure of Ricardo Bocacci, the undersecretary of Public Employment.
Nothing seems coincidental in the prelude to a wave of layoffs.
“Each area will have to figure out its own cut and how many people it decides to retain.
"We are not looking to remove anyone who works well
because those employees are needed,"
an official told this newspaper, while acknowledging that, in his case, he could do without 25% of the total number of workers in his sector.
Pablo de la Torre with Sandra Petovello, Minister of Human Capital.
"That is not necessarily the norm,"
he stressed,
"it is defined by each area
. "
The month-end adjustment would be combined with other workforce reduction strategies.
For example, the one that was applied to the workers of the Ministry of Women.
The portfolio was eliminated, but the employees were not fired but absorbed by Sandra Pettovello's Ministry of Human Capital.
They were required to be present and comply with schedules.
But without assigned roles, there are many more people in offices waiting for the clock to tick.
This wear and tear slowly reduces the quantities.
Pablo de la Torre, Secretary of Social Development, was one of the few who acknowledged that he is analyzing about 8,000 contracts.
In the CNRT (National Commission for the Regulation of Transport) the cancellation of 270 contracts is planned starting next Monday, along with the closure of the operational bases of the metropolitan area: Tigre, Morón, Lanús and San Martín.
“It's this scythe and that's it,”
a former Schiaretti official in charge of the Commission
told
Clarín .
We said days ago on
Radio Miter
about the labor conflict at América TV that
any mass dismissal is unfair by definition:
in a case like this, discrimination is not based on capacity but rather on the need for Excel;
They must close the accounts.
In the storm of mass dismissal fall guys who took advantage of their place, others who worked well, employees who due to their age will never return to the work circuit and opportunists who will continue jumping from vine to vine.
Milei will then be able to say that the deficit stopped bleeding.
But what will begin to bleed is the street.
These will be the years of the law of the jungle.