He decree 959/24 points out that “no privilege, advantage or benefit based on hereditary ties will be admitted for access to employment in the National Public Sector under the terms of Article 8 of Law No. 24,156, regardless of the type of contract.”
The provision prohibits both family members and spouses of state employees who have died, take their jobs in replacement. In the recitals, it points out that “it is worth highlighting that it is not admissible for priorities to be maintained to access public office nor for privileges to be granted that contravene the principle of equality.”
The decision to move forward with this new regulation had been announced at a press conference by the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni and the Minister of Deregulation and Modernization, Federico Sturzenegger.
The Government prohibited hereditary positions in the State: “Illogical privilege”
He Ministry of Deregulation and Modernization reported through a statement that the intention is to deepen “the strategy of rationalizing the size of the State, which already achieved the 15% cut of public personnel and the intimation for those employees who are of retirement age to retire without delay.”
“This illogical privilege placed the public employees above the rest of the workers of Argentina. But, from now on, whoever occupies a position in the State will be chosen only for their suitability,” he points out.
Then he continues: “To put it clearly, These advantages should never have existed, because the National Constitution itself established in its article 16 that ‘the Argentine Nation does not admit prerogatives of blood or birth: there are no personal privileges or titles of nobility in it. All its inhabitants are equal before the law, and admissible in employment without any other condition than suitability.
“In 2018, the Central Bank had eliminated this possibility, but in 2022 it was reintroduced in the statute of that organization,” it was reaffirmed from Sturzenegger’s portfolio, and clarified: “Today, at both the national, provincial and municipal levels there are regulations that consolidate this inheritance of public positions, especially through collective agreements.”
Source: Ambito
