Wholesalers reject increase in mandatory contribution for “training”

Wholesalers reject increase in mandatory contribution for “training”

September 24, 2024 – 16:47

“No employee receives training every month or has never done so, but they still have to contribute,” they explained.

Reuters

From the Argentine Chamber of Distributors and Wholesale Self-Service Stores (CADAM) They issued a statement on Tuesday in reference to the rejection of wholesalers towards the increase of mandatory contribution for ”training”.

In the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement for commercial employees, they explained that this contribution “It does not represent a benefit because no employee receives training every month or has never done so, but you have to contribute anyway.”

”The “mandatory” contribution, by the employer, to the Argentine Institute for Professional and Technological Training for Commerce (INACAP)has been made since 2008, for each retail employee, which reaches 1.2 million workers (the largest collective bargaining agreement in the country). The contribution involves 0.50% of the salary for the initial “A” Maestranza category (that is, it increases with each collective bargaining agreement), for which millions of dollars would be collected monthly, they explained.

The amount that INACAP would collect

In this sense, they detailed that INACAP could collect more than $57 billion a yeartaking as a basis that parameter and the mandatory amount contributed by the employer planned for the month of August 2024, of $3,961.21.

In this way, they commented that it is for this reason that “the entity has been requesting the executive (through letters to the Secretary of Labor and the Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State of the Argentine Nation, within the framework of the labor reform) This contribution should be eliminated or at least made voluntary.”.

It should be noted that There is no public accountability from INACAPwhich means that, as a merchant obliged to contribute monthly, he cannot see this information on a web portal, based on a transparency policy. The funds are managed -in part- by business associations, such as the Argentine Confederation of Medium-sized Enterprises (CAME).

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