In 2024, the moonlighting He touched the unpublished 12.4%, equivalent to 2.4 million workers that resort to multiple occupations to compensate for the insufficiency of income of their main employment, that is added 3.5 million of busy They actively seek employment (occupied plaintiffs – 16.6%). While, the Over -occupation reached the 29.2%which implies that some 5.8 million people work more than 45 hours per week, and many of them exceed 57 hours per week, which is equivalent to 9 and 11 hours per day.
“The phenomenon reflects that the problem is not the lack of work but the type of employment available, of low quality and little remuneration”he emphasized Ana RameriCoordinator of the Institute of Public Thought and Policies (IPyPP).
Fall in purchasing power
All this occurs in a active of the real fall of wages: state They sank 34% since the end of 2017, while the private They had a loss of purchasing power of 18.83%. If taken from the government of Javier Milei, The decline in public salaries is from 15.33% realalthough private They recovered the level and won a slight 0.6%, which for March this year they already lost it. The deterioration of purchasing power evidence the need to complement income from the erosion of the consumption capacityas well as the process of covert flexibility of the labor market.
“This phenomenon acquires special relevance in crisis contextswhere homes face greater difficulties to meet basic needs with their income. He moonlighting record in 2024 reflects failures in the Employment generation quality and social protectionwith implications for labor well -being and productivity, “emphasizes the report “Illusory recovery? Poverty and inequality in Argentina for 2024” performed by Eduardo Chávez Molina, Mariana Sosa and José Rodríguez de la Fuente of the UBA.
From 2017 to the end of 2024, which is so far that data is had, the number of multi -employees grew in 790,000 people, They also work On average 2.5 hours more per week than in 2017.
Only between mid -2023 and the end of 2024, 370,000 more people went on to have multiple jobs, they detail from IPyPP. This is due to the devaluation and the strong inflation crisis, which then only translated into a marked salary fall, with greater emphasis on public.
Garrahan and Posadas hospital residents
The Garrahan hospital resident doctors They claim for a salary increasesince they are currently with hosts below the $ 800,000that does not cover the Total basic basket of a type type -Mid the poverty threshold- which was located in April in the $ 1,110,063while the Food -Mid the indigence- it was from $ 502,291according to him INDEC.
It should be clarified that residents -médicas in training, but with the race completed- work 65 hours per week, of which they must have 75% assistance and fulfill guards to achieve total training. In this way, residents are difficult to take hours in another clinic.
Even so, residents clarified that they were “forced to cease the measure of indefinite work unemployment“And suspend your participation in the march that will take place this Thursday to the Plaza de Mayo before the threats of dismissal of the authorities of the institution despite the fact that workers depend on the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
The claim of the residents of the Garrahan was now added that of the workers of the Posadas Hospital that denounce that the Current basic remuneration is $ 797,000 “with a time load of more than 60 or 70 hours per week, without any compensatory bond”.
After 15 years of training between the theoretical and practical modules, the initial salary of a Plant doctor It is from $ 1,800,000 in it Garrahan Hospital. For that salary, health professionals work 42 hours per week And they do A 16 -hour guard per week.
Over -covered: 47.4% more hours work, but only 12.8% more than average earn
About the universe of people with extensive jorLabor swimmingthe last EPH allows you to look in detail that almost 4 million people work on average 50 hours per week, one million about 62, and another 900,000 hold days between 13 and 16 hours a day.
Of the entire universe of overalls, 45.6% are formal wage earners, demonstrating that “overexploitation” is not only restricted to labor informality.
Hours worked
“It is not about extinction occupations. On the contrary, many of them are concentrated in sectors such as direct sale, telemarketing, transport (including” platform “) or surveillance services. That is, in activities where work time is stretched and income remains insufficient,” they stand out from IPyPP.
In addition, these strenuous working days are not translated into a salary much higher than average. Despite working 47.4% more hours, the overtons earn only 12.8% more than the average, with a 15.4% lower time remuneration.
During the last quarter of 2024, the working time remained on the rise. The average hourly load increased by 4%. Between SALARIES Registered, the rise was even greater: 5.2%, product of the increase in extra hours worked, according to the INDEC income generation account.
Overexploitation does not guarantee to be outside the poverty line
The overexploitation of the workers is explained in a framework of labor precariousness and fall in purchasing power, where even the Minimum, vital and mobile salary ($ 302,600) is below the Total basic basket which measures the poverty line of an older adult ($ 359,246).
“Despite being busy, almost three out of ten people (27.9%) are poor and 4.3% are homeless, which reveals that the work does not even guarantee a basic reproduction threshold. This situation is aggravated if analyzed by occupational category: 42.2% of unregistered wage earners and 38.4% of the propistants are poorwhile even within the formal segment, the 16.6% of registered employees are also below the poverty line“Rameri points out.
In turn, the specialist adds that the 24.7% of workers obtains income below the minimum, vital and mobile salarywhich, for the first time in recent history, is located below the poverty line for an adult. Even among those who work full or extended days, the phenomenon persists: 13.9% of the overalls – that is, who work more than 45 hours per week – also neither cover that minimum threshold.
Source: Ambito
