The Chamber of Deputies approved and sent to the Senate ‘Mipyme’ bill, prepared by the Executive Branch, which seeks to strengthen the employment in small and medium enterprisesbased on a series of benefits for hiring personnel, among other issues.
The project was approved by 130 votes in favor, from the Frente de Todos and provincial blocks; 3 against and 63 abstentions, mostly from Together for Change.
When explaining the scope of the project, the president of the Budget and Finance Commission, Carlos Heller (Frente de Todos), stressed that “it must be understood in the complementary framework of another project like the one we are dealing with today, referring to the Income Tax”.
“This project aims to encourage formal hiring of workers, to promote the transformation of those who today are beneficiaries of social plans already eradicate informalitymainly in microenterprises,” he added.
MSME employment: what the project establishes
Through the project, it is established that the benefit is granted “for a period of 24 months counted from the beginning of the employment relationship, inclusive, and the magnitude of the reduction varies depending on the size of the employer and whether or not the worker has been beneficiary or beneficiary of certain social and employment programs”.
Likewise, the project contemplates a scheme of regularization of unregistered labor situations, which allows SMEs to enjoy certain benefits regularize labor relations in force in the private sector initiated prior to the date on which the law is promulgated.
According to the text, the company “may rectify the actual remuneration or the actual date of beginning of the employment relationship with the following benefits:
- is freed from criminal sanctions and reduces judicial conflicts
- can correct the deregistration of employers with labor sanctions (Repsal)
- agrees to debt forgiveness for capital, interest and fines for workers who regularize.
In turn, the worker you will not lose contributionssince the State will compute the contributions not paid by employers for up to 70 months.
In the case of both benefits, SMEs They will not be able to reduce the payroll and they will not be able to have no unregistered worker.
MSME employment: who does it include?
The regime includes employers and employers who fit and are registered as Micro, Small or Medium Enterprises either Non-profit entities“whose exclusive object is the provision of free social services, and labor relations must be regularized within 90 calendar days, counted from the date of entry into force of the Regulations of the law.”
In the case of Micro, Small or Medium Enterprises or a non-profit entity, “that hires workers who do not benefit from national social and employment programs that grant monetary benefits, a 100% reduction of employer contributions”.
Meanwhile, for the other employers of the private sector “who hire workers who do not benefit from national social and employment programs that provide monetary benefits: the first 12 months, a 50% reduction in employer contributions and the second 12 months, a 25% reduction in employer contributions “.
Source: Ambito
