The Minister of Labor and Social Security pointed out that the percentage is lower than that recorded by the previous government during its last three years.
He Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieresassured that the informality rate in Uruguay is 21.5%, and that percentage is lower than those recorded by the previous government during the last three years of its administration.
This Monday, the head of the MTSS defended the work of his portfolio in this regard at a press conference, after the Executive Branch was criticized by the senator and presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio (FA), Mario Bergarawho assured that 90% of the jobs created in recent months were black.
Mieres commented that the previous FA government had an informality rate close to 25% during the last years of its administration, and that the current management of the Multicolor Coalition It has a rate of 21.5%. “Informality dropped 3.5 points with respect to the FA government,” he emphasized.
“This despite everything that happened in the middle, despite the pandemic, despite the crisis,” Mieres asserted before adding that: “in terms of jobs, in terms of the number of workers in the market, “We are much higher than at the time of the FA.”
“There are 40,000 fewer informal workers than at the time of the Broad Front”
Along these lines, the leader and potential presidential candidate of the Independent Party (PI) He said that these figures imply “a number of informal workers of 40,000 less than at the time of the FA”, since before “there were 400,000 informal workers” and “now there are 360,000.”
“I can’t let it go, because I think this campaign is good for it to be intense and even hard, but with the truth, not inventing figures, not inventing problems where there are none,” the Minister of Labor concluded in this regard.
Source: Ambito
