They seek to avoid layoffs until December, after more than 103,000 Uruguayans crossed to take advantage of the exchange difference.
After the massive crossing of people into Argentina to take advantage of exchange difference during the last long weekend, in the tourism sector they demanded that a unemployment insurance to avoid layoffs in the next three months.
He Vice President of the Uruguayan Chamber of Tourism, Francisco Rodríguez, He raised the idea by pointing out in a dialogue with Underlined that “the concern is the three months ahead” and referred to the more than 103,000 Argentines who crossed over the long weekend: “We calculated that if there were 50,000 it would be complicated the situation. Now with 100,000 we don’t have the word that defines that”.
Rodriguez referred to the situation of tourism and the uruguayans that cross to Argentina to take advantage of price gap and ruled in favor of “a law with the possibility that the sector can request a unemployment insurance partial, especially in these three months”.
Regarding this period, he explained that “it is essential as a sector that hotels are not closed in September, October and November.” At the same time, he raised the importance of “that it does not happen that the staff have to be fired and that they stay, because it is what gives us that extra service.”
The proposal to the Ministry of Economy and Finance
The representative of the tourist chamber specified that they have already asked the Ministry of Economy and Finance to analyze how to implement this initiative, while raising the idea of getting more benefits, in the midst of a scenario that strongly affects domestic consumption.
“We know that we cannot solve the exchange difference issue,” he said. Rodriguez and admitted that the idea of there being a dollar tourism “is not on the horizon of the authorities either.”
On the other hand, he considered that “the only important point is benefits not only for the tourist who arrives from abroad, but also for the Uruguayan tourist.” In this sense, he affirmed that “the most appropriate for this quarter, or the most possible, would be the one that has to do with the VAT in gastronomy”.
Source: Ambito
