These issues were discussed this Thursday on the second day of the 58th IDEA Colloquium, the business summit that brings together representatives of the country’s main companies in Mar del Plata. Representatives of the trade union world also arrived there: the general secretary of UOCRA, Gerardo Martinez; and the general secretary of SMATA, Ricardo Pignanelli.
One of the triggers was the data presented on job creation: jobs in the private sector have been stagnant for 11 years.
The possibility of a labor reform has been shaken in recent days, leveraged from the opposition that is emboldened to propose an agenda in economic terms for the 2023 presidential elections. At least in on, Businessmen avoid the definition of “reform”, but they do express themselves in favor of corrections and adjustments within the modalities.
They give as an example the direct agreements between companies and unions as was established in the automotive industry. Participating in this agreement were Pignanelli and the host of the Colloquium, Daniel Smith, president of Toyota.
The panel also had the presence of the national deputy Martin Tetaz, whom Martínez crossed when passing. “They brought a spokesperson for the labor reform,” said the construction leader, after the legislator spoke of the need for “deeper” changes, with ideas of a labor emergency law for the SME sector and the replacement of compensation for unemployment insurance.
The first of the exhibitors in the employment section at the Colloquium was the president of HSBC Argentina, John Marotta. “Argentina requires more private social employment because we all benefit. Private employment gives rights”, he remarked.
For his part, the economist Emmanuel Alvarez Agisfounding partner of the PxQ Consultant, stated virtually: “The main problem is that none of the few jobs that have been created in recent years are within the formal employment regime.”
“It is a game in which everyone loses: the employee because he has a precarious position, the public sector because it does not collect, the company because it accumulates labor liabilities and even the union loses because its representativeness falls,” he added.
“You have to give the opportunity,” he claimed. Maria Eugenia Pradodirector of the Tucuman firm Transporte Fríos del Norte, who told about her experience of incorporating beneficiaries of social plans.
Then it was the turn of Martin BerardiExecutive President of Ternium Argentina, and of Santiago Nicholson, Managing Partner of Nicholson&Cano Abogados, who reinforced the need to generate more private employment, as well as a reformulation of the current system of fines that, apparently, has not managed to combat informality.
“To generate more employment, a major labor reform is not necessary,” said Nicholson, adding: “IDEA makes a proposal that is to replace the system of fines with another in which the State controls.”
Berardi, meanwhile, emphasized that the fundamental idea is not to propose major changes to labor laws but to “see the way in which spaces are created where there is job creation and behavior change,” and continued: “If you don’t it generates private employment, there is no fiscal equation, there is no possible insertion in the world”.
Finally, Gabriela Bardin, General Manager of P&G Argentina added: “We need consensus to incorporate the population into formal work, in a growing and organized manner. Work dignifies, generates greater motivation, generates growth”.
Source: Ambito
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