The chainsaw Javier Milei He fired between December 2023 and January 2025 to 43,778 people. The reduction of people in state -owned companies and public bodies represented a 12.8%cut.
The data arises from the report prepared by the Argentine Political Economy Center (CEPA), in which it analyzed what happened in dismissal and unemployment material in the National Public Administration since December 10, 2023, when the Government assumed the management.
Since Javier Milei assumed, there were 43,778 layoffs in public employment
The CEPA indicated that among the sectors where dismissals were registered are public companies and state companies, followed by the decentralized administration, and the centralized and baffled administration.
Regarding personnel reduction in relation to the size of their endowment, that is, percentage:
- Railway Human Capital Development: 99.7%
- Sau State Advertising Agency (Ex Télam): 79%
- ENARSA PATAGONIA SA: 66.7%
- National Social Policies Coordination Council: 60%
- Educate se: 52.7%
- Bonaparte Hospital: 51.7%
- National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA 🙂 47.6%
- Public content: 44.6%
- Technological Pole Constituentes SA: 40%
- National Tourism Promotion Institute: 39%
In conclusion, the CEPA said that the drain policy “is aligned with the explicit objective of the libertarian management of reducing the State”, and clarifies that “not only in its size” but also in “its regulatory and management capacities.”
Javier Milei’s chainsaw: companies and organizations with more dismissals
As for companies or companies with the highest staff cut, the list is headed by the Argentine Correo (-4.705), followed by the Customs Collection and Control Agency (-1.694), Aeroline (-1.272), Development of Railway Human Capital (-1.075), Banco Nación (-765) and ENACOM (-719).
According to the CEPA report, in the 13 months of Milei management, these were the state companies and public agencies that suffered more cuts in the staff:
- Argentine mail: 4,705
- Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA): 1,694
- Aerolineas Argentinas: 1,558
- Argentine water and sanitation (AYSA): 1,463
- National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET): 1,422
- Railway Operator State Society: 1,333
- National Social Security Administration (ANSES): 1,272
- Railway Human Capital Development: 1,075
- National Bank: 765
- National Communications Entity (ENACOM): 719
The publication also highlights the 765 layoffs at Banco Nación“In a context where the government made explicit its intention to privatize it,” said the report.
The “Drawing of the National Railway System was also reported, expressed in the cuts in the Railway Company Company Society of the State (1,333) and development of railway human capital (1,075)”.
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Strain
“It also stands out the staff cut on a key organism in social matters such as the National Council for the Coordination of Social Policies, which saw its endowment reduced by 60%. And the fierce cut of 52% of the personnel of the National Hospital of Mental Health and Addictions Laura Bonaparte, whose community is mobilized facing the closure arranged by the national government, ”they point out.
Finally, the report He concludes that “this public sector drain policy is aligned with the explicit objective of the libertarian management of reducing the State, not only in its size but also in its regulatory and management capabilities.”
Source: Ambito
