The government officialized a new increase in Vital and mobile minimum salary. Through the national employment rabbit, the libertarian administration determined that, after two consecutive increases, in March the sum will reach $ 202,800.
The measure had been formalized with the publication of Resolution 17/2024 published in the Official Gazette. The values ruled by the Government are fundamental to Define the salary floor of employees who are not outside the collective work agreements.
The Government confirmed the new amounts of the minimum vital and mobile salary
The resolution detailed the progressive increases that the minimum wage was going to reflect from December 2024 to March 2025. In this way, and the third month of the year began, the new minimum amount for remuneration was formalized.
Thus, after the March adjustment, the It will be $ 296,832 per month. This reflects a Minimum payment of $ 1,484 per hour.
It should be remembered that the February increase had brought the basic remuneration to the $ 292,446 monthly – $ 1,462 per hour -For that in December the value will close in $ 279,718 per month.
What is the minimum vital and mobile salary
He Minimum vital and mobile salary (SMVM) It is a right guaranteed by article 14 bis of the National Constitution and regulated by the Labor Contract Law. This rule defines to the minimum wage as the minimum income that a worker can receive as compensation for his work.
He Advice defined by SMVM It is composed of representatives of the business sector, the unions, the national State and the Federal Labor Council, which includes provincial governments, among others. The legislation also establishes that the SMVM is unattachable, except in cases of food debts.
In addition, agreement 131 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) stipulates that, by establishing the amount of the SMVM, the needs of workers and their familiestogether with factors such as economic development, productivity levels and employment generation.
On the other hand, the minimum wage also impacts the value of various benefits, such as certain social programs, and in some cases, in the calculation of the food quota for separate parents. However, the minimum wage already has a Loss of purchasing power greater than 30% after the devaluation of December last year. The decreasing trend of the previous years, additionally to the strong contraction of these months, positioned the minimum wage at a value lower than that registered in 2001, prior to the convertibility crisis.
Source: Ambito
