Rural Worker’s Day: why it is celebrated every October 8

Rural Worker’s Day: why it is celebrated every October 8

October 8, 2024 – 9:30 p.m.

A date to honor the farm workers, whose alarm clock is the dawn sun and their rest is the night.

Each October 8 It is celebrated in Argentina on Rural worker’s day. A date to value the hard work carried out by the people in the field. The date refers to a historical event for the sector that happened in 1944. In any case, in 1980 it was repealed, only to be reinstated in 2011.

The sector did not have any type of regulation for its workers until 1944 and even today it is one of the sectors where slavery exists the most. The difficulty of registering the large spaces of plain that involve the countryside makes it difficult for the State to find people who are in situations of exploitation, overcrowding and sometimes slave labor.

Work in the field

Why Rural Worker’s Day is celebrated every October 8

The date of October 8 refers to that day in 1944, when in the government of General Edelmiro Farreland from the Ministry of Labor chaired by Juan Domingo Perón, the field laborer status. This was the first legal precedent to frame the activity of rural workers.

It established standards in defense of salary, payment in national currency, mandatory breaks, accommodation in minimum hygienic conditions, food, provision of work clothes, medical-pharmaceutical assistance and paid vacations. In 1980, during the military dictatorship, the statute was repealed and was only reestablished in 2004. Then in 2011, a new one would be sanctioned in accordance with the times.

Source: Ambito

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