He Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieresmade an assessment of his management before leaving office on May 2 to dedicate himself fully to the electoral campaign as presidential candidate of the Independent Party (PI)and highlighted that today there are 104,000 more jobs than there were in February 2020, the last month of the previous government.
At a press conference, the head of the MTSS sent his greetings to the Uruguayan workers on Wednesday and pointed out that “everything indicates that, during this year, the employment will remain firm” in the country.
“The number of people who are in the labor market (activity rate) was 64.3% in the first quarter of 2024,” Mieres highlighted, adding: “the employment rate has again increased to 58.9%.” , the highest number since 2015.”
Likewise, he indicated that unemployment is around 8%, below the 2019 numbers and 2 points below February 2020. “In these 3 years of government, the number of informal workers was reduced by 25%. in the period 2015-2019 to 21.3%,” he added.
On the other hand, he showed his “pride” for complying with “the commitment to fully recover the purchasing power of wages” that the government proposed after the pandemic by Covid-19. “During the year 2023, the average real salary was one point above the average for the year 2019,” she explained.
In that sense, he commented that at the end of the fourth year of government, the administration “exhibits a reality of more employment and better salaries than in the previous government,” despite the aforementioned pandemic, the historic drought and the exchange difference with the Argentina.
“Social security reform was necessary”
With respect to social security reformexpressed that it was “necessary”, since it “promotes equity without abruptly and suddenly affecting anyone” and is designed so that younger workers “have their retirements guaranteed, with amounts equal to or better than the current ones.” .
“We are clear that many people continue to have employment problems and that it is necessary to continue working on reducing inequalities, in terms of gender, age, education, region, socioeconomic level, and disability,” he stated.
Source: Ambito
