Since he took office Javier Mileihe The government cut down public employment with a chainsaw. This was confirmed by a report that analyzed the employment data of the national public administration and of the companies and societies of last July compared to the month of December 2023. There was a reduction of 30,936 positionsequivalent to 9.1% of the base allocation at the end of last year. The Central administration, the Official Post Office, ANSES, CONICET and AYSA lead the declines.
The revealing data emerged from a survey conducted by the economist Nadín Argañaraz, based on data from INDECin which he observed the changes in the number of workers who are part of public employment since the libertarian administration began.
From the point of view of the intensity of the reduction in the staffing of December 2023, the largest falls are concentrated in the National Council for the Coordination of Social Policies (-58.5%), National Institute of Associativism and Social Economy (-30.3%), National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (-29.7%), National Agency for Disability (-28.2%), National Communications Entity (-26.6%) and the Official Post Office of the Argentine Republic (-24.2%).
In the last five months, 115,000 jobs were lost in the country
During the first five months of Javier Milei’s Government, 115,000 registered jobs were lost, according to the Argentine Integrated Pension System (SIPA). In the midst of the economic crisis that the country is suffering, almost all labor sectors experienced a drop in the level of employment. In the private sector, 1 in every 100 workers is suspended.
The number of people with registered employment increased from 13,359,000 in December 2023 to 13,244,000 in May of this year. In the year-on-year comparison, the total number of workers with registered employment decreased by 1.4%.The falls occurred in all sectors: home staff, self-employment, public sector and private sector. “This drop in salaried employment is due to the decline shown by the private sector and domestic workers (-2% and -4.6% respectively),” explained the SIPA report.
In May, the independent work showed a fall of 0.1% compared to the previous month; while the social single tax registered a decrease of 1.0% and self-employed workers, a drop of 1.4%.
On the other hand, according to SIPA, The level of private employment during May 2024 had a contraction of 0.1% compared to April and has accumulated a reduction of 2.1% since December 2023. The report from the Ministry of Labor indicates that in June registered private employment fell again and decreased by 0.2%. With this variation, there are six consecutive months of net employment decline since President Javier Milei took office.
Except for Commerce, restaurants and hotels and communal, social and personal services; All sectors experienced a contraction in June. Specifically, employment in the manufacturing industry, which showed a significant contraction (-0.5%), is registering its fifth consecutive month of decline. For its part, the construction sector “continues to show the largest monthly contraction (-0.7%), also consolidating the slowdown in the decline in relation to previous months,” the Secretary of Labor noted in the report.
The staff additions, measures through the entry rate, were reduced in June compared to the previous month and compared to the same month in 2023, accentuating the contractionary trend observed in previous months.
In this line, staff layoffs, measured by the exit rate, They also showed a drop compared to May and the same month of the previous year.
Finally, labor demand in June had its lowest value in the series, that is, since 2007. Only in 2020, with the influence of the pandemic, was a lower level recorded for a month of June.
Source: Ambito
