Employment in the era of Javier Milei: Change or destruction?

Employment in the era of Javier Milei: Change or destruction?

September 23, 2025 – 16:37

The key question is not only if work survives, but under what conditions.

In just a few months, the Argentine labor market entered an accelerated and painful transformation process. The official discourse speaks of “Liberate productive forces” and “Deregulate to grow”but in practice, current photography is that of a Economics in recession with falling consumption, companies that adjust costs and workers that feel the rigor of precariousness.

Employment in Argentinafar from expanding, it contracts. And the question is inevitable: Are we facing a structural change or a demolition without reconstruction plan?

Increase competitiveness and generate wake, according to Milei

The Policies promoted by Javier Milei aim to reduce state intervention, Felicize collective agreements and eliminate historical rigidities from the labor market. On paper, the goal is increase competitiveness and generate employment in the future. However, the immediate evidence is that economic contraction erodes the purchasing power, hits trade and multiplies undercover dismissals under the figure of “disconnection agreements”.

The story of “change” It crashes into a reality in which SMEs do not invest, multinationals slow down their projects and the average worker sees how their dollar salary falls to historical levels.

The key question is not just If employment survives, but under what conditions. Argentina has a labor market that requires Modernization and technologybut that does not mean dynamit rights or leave millions outpatient. The artificial intelligence, digitalization and transition to new forms of production They could be labor inclusion engines if accompanied with active training, protection and development policies.

Javier Milei

The Argentine labor market entered an accelerated transformation process.

The Argentine labor market entered an accelerated transformation process.

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“It was Milei”

The risk of “It was Milei” is that the Shock ends up being destructivewithout the countercara of a genuine employment plan. And the challenge of the political, business and trade union leadership is Build an agenda that is not limited to resisting or adjusting, but proposes a model of full modern employment.

Employment in Argentina in Milei is at a crossroads. It may be the beginning of a Transformation towards a more flexible and competitive labor market, or can lead to the massive destruction of positions without replacement. The difference will make the State’s capacity and the Social actors to design clear rules, bet on training in new competencies and guarantee a labor dignity.

If employment becomes adjustment variable, the cost will be paid by the whole company. If, on the other hand, it is placed as the axis of a national development strategy, the story will remember this time not as a collapse, but as the beginning of a deep reconstruction.

By Juan Pablo Chiesa, lawyer. Specialist in Work and Master in Employment and Judicial Innovation. Diploma in artificial intelligence applied to management in digital environments, analyzes the impact of Javier Milei’s policies on work and the future of employment in Argentina.

Source: Ambito

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