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Argentina: Government brings together unions and employers to discuss labour reform
Monday, December 16, 2024 - 17:30
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The highest representative of the Government will be Milei's chief of staff, Guillermo Francos.

The Argentine government will meet this coming Wednesday, December 18, with the country's leading business leaders and with the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) of Argentina, the country's main trade union organization, to discuss, among other issues, the next steps to advance labor reform.

The meeting will be attended by the highest representative of the Government, Guillermo Francos, Milei's chief of staff, and the points to be discussed are open, although the main issue will be the labor reform, which the president of the country wants to give a new impetus to.

"We are going to continue our adjustment program. Along those lines, we are going to carry out a tax reform, a pension reform, a true labor reform; a reform of the national security laws, a profound penal reform, a political reform, and many other reforms that the country has owed for decades," Milei said last week, in the framework of her first anniversary as president of Argentina.

One of the main points of conflict between employers and unions is the blockades and protests by workers during strikes. The business sector would be interested in imposing this issue as a cause for dismissal.

With this meeting, the CGT is showing itself to be more open to dialogue with the Government, in the face of criticism from other unions who regret this position, advocating new strikes against Javier Milei's policies.

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