The president of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce, Mario Grinman, analyzed the current situation and assured that in the coming months there will be companies that will have to close, although he clarified that “they are the least” and warned that in the context of the inflationary rhythm that is registered in Argentina There are prices that should go down.
“In November and dicember There were very high increases and some should not have been like that, but they were justified by uncertainty, by the lack of reference prices. To the extent that If they are honest, they will settle down. It is unreal that a liter of soda produces more than a liter of gasoline,” the business leader acknowledged in an interview with NA.
“I foresee six terrible months,” He said and explained that it is a product “of what we had been having, due to the uncontrolled emission that there was and that was going to impact inflation.”
“The problem is that the Argentine economy has been adjusting with the masometer. That is the problem, the lack of reference values, the lack of confidence and until that is recreated it will take a long time,” he assured.
Grinmann recognized a drop in consumption
Grinman acknowledged that since July of last year the consumption began to fall and it deepened: “It never stopped and it will continue,” he predicted; For this reason, she assured: “I have no doubt that some will unfortunately fall, but they will be the least.”
“He too Argentine businessman Regardless of the size of the company, it has a great capacity for resilience. What is happening now is not new. “It’s happened many times,” he said.
Grinman explained that while “in Chile there are 50 companies per 1,000 inhabitants, Brazil has 26 companies per 1,000 inhabitants and Argentina only 13 per 1,000 inhabitants.” For this reason, he ventured that if this proportion were improved, private employment should double.
He assigned the current state to informality, “which at least is around 40%”and the lack of confidence.
What the businessman said about the Omnibus Law
On the other hand, he highlighted that the Omnibus Law “It is what Argentina needs in an essential way. “Argentina’s populist models have failed.”
Regarding the section that has to do with labor reforms, he assured that the severance fund alone “is not enough, but it can somehow generate a certain peace of mind.”
“First you have to discuss it equally. I cannot imagine a generalized fund for all activities because each sector has different modalities. And the contribution must be from the employer, which has to be defined so that the numbers are given and when the worker is fired he has to collect everything the law says and You have to make sure that later you cannot go to court to complain. And that is going to generate some confidence to generate employment,” he said.
Finally, according to the business leader “today the unions are taking care of those who have jobs and not those who have nothing, who are informal and outside the system.”
Source: Ambito
