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The reduction of contracts that the Government will make would affect 20 thousand employees whose agreements expire at the end of the month - Infobae
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La reducción de contratos que hará el Gobierno afectaría a 20 mil empleados cuyos acuerdos vencen a fin de mes
Son trabajadores estatales que seguían cumpliendo funciones, tras una prórroga de tres meses que dispuso la actual gestión. Hay protesta de sindicatos
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March 26, 2024
They are state workers who continued to fulfill their duties, after a three-month extension ordered by the current administration. There is a union protest
By Eduardo Meegazzi
The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, and the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, during a work meeting at the Casa Rosada.
No one yet confirms exactly how many there will be. But the government's intention began to circulate at the beginning of March and will be finalized in the next few hours. Numerous contracts for state employees that expire on March 31 will not be renewed. In the Casa Rosada, some officials maintain that those affected will be informed of the decision this Wednesday, because afterwards there will be an extra long weekend for Easter and the holiday on Tuesday, April 2. The figures differ according to the sources consulted, but they would be between 20 and 30 percent of the 71,000 state employees that are not permanent plants. The figure that circulates most insistently is 20,000 contracts completed and not renewed.
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The cut in the State was one of Javier Milei's campaign promises and that he is carrying out with the help of his Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, and with the participation of other levels of the Government. For this reason, in December all those hired who had joined in 2023 were laid off through a decree and previous contracts were extended for 3 months, pending a more detailed review of each situation.
All the agreements that were reviewed belong to those who are classified as a temporary plant or under another modality, which is professional technical assistance. The two unions that group these workers, ATE (Association of State Workers) and UPCN (Union of Civil Personnel of the Nation), estimate that in this first group there are about 65 thousand people and in the second, the remaining 6,000. To give an example, in one of the national ministries, an official exemplified before Infobae that of the 40 people under his supervision, only three were “permanent staff.”
This type of hiring, which lasts more than 10 or 15 years in some cases, is an issue that the unions have been demanding for a long time but that no administration seems willing to correct or regularize.
A protest by state workers in front of the Ministry of Labor in February of this year.
From the Chief of Staff under Posse's command, an audit was undertaken since December, in the first days of the Milei administration, to review the state of public accounts in each division. Staff reduction was also included in the list of items, as a way to reduce expenses.
By decree 84 of December 23, with the signatures of Milei and Posse, it was established that all contracts that were extended for 90 days were going to have “an exhaustive survey” by “the competent authorities of each jurisdiction.” The head of each organization was in a position to “evaluate the renewal of contracts.”
That is why since last week there were personnel who could no longer enter their workplaces. It happened on Friday in several offices of the ANSES (National Social Security Administration) where telegrams and telephone communications arrived, by email or through the internal system of the State, called GDE, as anticipated by Infobae. Also in the CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research), where the board had opposed the Executive's directives, there were 86 dismissals, which caused a march of repudiation in the Scientific and Technological Pole, in the Palermo neighborhood.
ATE held a day of protest this Tuesday and rejects the 8% increase for March offered by the national government.
Other dependencies were added. A few hours after adopting a forceful measure in SENASA (National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service) that was going to prevent health controls and the paralysis of exports for 48 hours, there was a last-minute negotiation with ATE and the extent. According to SENASA sources, around 50 contracts were going to be canceled there, but sources linked to the sector interceded with the Government so that they did not occur.
This morning the union carried out mobilizations, assemblies and roadblocks throughout the country, and in the Federal Capital the Institute of Family, Peasant and Indigenous Agriculture was mobilized, one of the organizations that the Government announced that it will close, like the INADI . He included in the claim the rejection of the 8% figure that the Government proposed as an increase for state employees in March - UPCN accepted that figure. Then the large demonstration passed by the Ministry of Economy, a few meters from La Rosada, a department where several employees could not enter because their fingerprints were not enabled.
UPCN, for its part, mobilized at the beginning of this afternoon to the Ministry of Social Development, on 9 de Julio Avenue, where they reported more than 1,200 “discontinued” contracts.
At the Casa Rosada, on Monday there was a “applause and noise” from some of the employees in response to the layoff alert. President Milei's entourage estimates that this Wednesday there could be greater details about the number of employees who will no longer have ties with the State.
