Starting in January, the social plans will become “labor inclusion programs” and their beneficiaries must comply with the corresponding compensation and comply with mandatory training in order to have greater chances of obtaining a private job, announced the Minister of Economy and candidate presidential, Sergio Massa.
The measure was made official today in the Official Gazette and will aim to “promote training and strengthen the formal work system of people who are working in the field of the Popular Economy.”
“Transfer, as of January 1, 2024, all of the holders of the National Socio-Productive Inclusion and Social Development Program – “Potenciar Trabajo”, to the Labor Inclusion Program, created by article 1 of the present, within the scope of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security”, states article 2 of the regulations.
As detailed by the Minister of Economy, from January 1, 2024, social programs will become part of the Labor Inclusion Program, which will imply a “new change in the system of social programs.”
“They are going to have mandatory job training, registration in the employment exchanges of each of the cities and of each of the employment managements, and control of compensation, both in the executing units for the development of productive programs and in the activities that they develop in provinces, municipalities or companies,” Massa pointed out.
He also announced that “the Bridge to Employment program will be launched: anyone who starts working in a company will maintain the benefit for one year, companies will have to supplement income until they reach the minimum wage, and in exchange they will not pay social security contributions for two years.” “.
The social programs will have mandatory job training, registration in the employment exchanges of each of the cities and each of the employment management offices, and they will also have compensation control.
Plan beneficiaries will be registered both in the executing units for the development of productive programs and in the activities they carry out in provinces, municipalities or companies.
Massa said that, “in parallel, we consolidate the Bridge to Employment program. Anyone who today has a social program and goes to work in a company will maintain the benefit for a year, and the employer who takes it must complete the salary.” of agreement. But also, to encourage these employers to take these beneficiaries of programs, they are not going to pay social contributions for two years of these workers that they incorporate as beneficiaries of social programs into the world of work.”
“The enormous challenge facing Argentina is to understand that work and education are the two engines of upward social mobility, and that generating opportunities for those who over many years were excluded due to different economic and social crises, or due to a small on the part of the State, in the case of people with disabilities, it has to be a barrier that we break to guarantee that inclusion in the labor market generates the opportunities that the beneficiaries of social programs and those who are beneficiaries of the pension for disabilities, definitely have their opportunities,” he said.
I consider “very important that we generate tax benefits, elimination of restrictions, but above all, guarantee of opportunities so that the Argentina of work is a reality for all Argentines.”
Employment for people with disabilities
In addition, Massa announced the “integration of people with disabilities into the labor market.”
“There was an absurd contradiction that anyone who has a pension will be suspended if they enter the job market,” he explained.
He said that they seek to “eliminate that barrier, break that wall that represents the limit between pension and work.”
“The objective is to include and expand opportunities for people with disabilities,” Massa highlighted.
Over the last few years we have faced the absurd contradiction that those who have a disability pension cannot access the labor market because their pension is suspended. So a protective right that the State had designed functions as a limit for the development of people with disabilities.
He said that the decision has been made to “eliminate that barrier, to break that wall that represents for people with disabilities the limit between pension and work.”
“From tomorrow, people with disabilities, beneficiaries of the pension, who enter the labor market will not lose or see their pension suspended. On the contrary, they will be able to integrate the pension into their entry into the labor market “he indicated.
“The objective we pursue is to include, to incorporate, to expand the opportunities of people with disabilities in entering the labor market. And we feel that this is a first step in a process in which we must also consolidate that inclusion process by breaking architectural barriers based on a State that works on the design of inclusive cities,” said Massa.
Source: Ambito
