The Government of Javier Milei decided to renew the contracts of some 40,000 employees of the national public administration for a period of three monthsuntil the end of March 2025. The measure will only affect those workers who are not part of the permanent state plant.
In detail, employees are expected to perform a suitability examination during this period to know if they move to a contractual regime of greater stability. From the Association of State Workers (ATE) They reported that in total There are more than 55,000 employees whose contracts expired on the last business day of 2024.
The Government will extend national public administration contracts
Since its inauguration, Milei’s management has renewed – unstablely – the contracts of a large sector of the public administration every 3 months, to define which portion of the workers will keep their jobs and who will be fired. In line with this, and with the beginning of the new year, The Government decided to renew the contracts of 40,000 public employees until the end of March.
In detail, these contracts are covered under the Article 9 of the Employment Regulation Framework Law National Public that establishes regimes for a certain time for transitory or seasonal services. It is expected that this will be the last extension since, in the meantime, all employees will have to take the General Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.
The suitability exam – promoted by the Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger -, presents a questionnaire divided into three categories: reading comprehension, logical-mathematical reasoning and public administration.
As detailed from Casa Rosada, the decision on who will continue in their position and who will not will be determined by two conditions: Employees must pass the suitability exam and their bosses must consider that they fulfill a necessary function for the area.
Despite the numbers communicated by the Government, ATE reports that there are 55,000 employees whose contracts expired on December 31, 2024. This calculation also includes the monotributistas under service leasing and the 2,400 employees who depended on the Association of Automotive Dealers of the Argentine Republic (ACARA), a cooperating entity of the Ministry of Justice to expedite the procedures in automobile registrations. The Government has already announced that it will disengage workers who have an agreement through ACARA.
From ATE they detailed that, at the turn of the year, “the first layoffs were detected in the Ministry of Justice, in the Social Work Institute of the Armed Forces (Iosfa) – the social work of the uniformed personnel – and in National Parks.”
An example of this is what happened at the Cultural Center of the Memory Haroldo Contilocated in the ex-ESMA, 87 employees received a message via WhatsApp on December 31 in which they were informed that they should no longer report to work.
Chainsaw in the State: the changes that the Government ordered for hiring for the public sector
In line with this measure, before the turn of the year the Government decreed changes in the public sector contracting.
First, the libertarian administration decreed that national public sector jurisdictions and entities “will no longer be able to make appointments or hiring of personnel of any nature“. In detail, this includes:
- Term appointments in the Transitional Plants provided for “by article 30 of the General Collective Labor Agreement for the National Public Administration, approved by Decree No. 214 of February 27, 2006 and its amendments.”
- The contracts provided for in article 9 of the Annex to Law No. 25,164 and its regulations.
- Hiring for an indefinite period, fixed-term, part-time and temporary work provided for in articles 90, 92 ter, 93 and 99, respectively, of the Employment Contract Law No. 20,744.
- Contracts for the provision of self-employed professional services provided for by Decree No. 1109 of December 28, 2017.
- Temporary appointments in simple positions of the permanent staff.
- The hiring of personnel with or without a dependency relationship, under any modality, provided for in special statutes or non-budgetary financing sources.
Those designations that include: he National System of Science, Technology and Innovation; the Universities; he National Foreign Service; he National Park Ranger Corps; the SFire Management System and in the personnel included in the Collective Sectoral Labor Agreement of the Professional Staff of Hospital and Care Establishments and Research and Production Institutes dependent on the MINISTRY OF HEALTH.
On the other hand, The changes decreed will not apply either by the Government for those “organizational units incorporated into the Nomenclator of Executive Functions of the Collective Sectoral Labor Agreement of the Personnel of the NATIONAL PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM (SINEP)”, the extensions of transitional appointments and contracts, the appointments of Cabinet Personnel, the hiring of the Mobility and Internal Search Program (MoBI), coverage of positions or hiring that fulfill the Disability Quota and the appointments and hirings that are made as a result of changes in the service provision regime.
One of the biggest changes established by the new regulations is that it establishes that national public sector entities may have “ONE (1) registration in the event that you report THREE (3) personnel withdrawals, whatever the cause, produced from a resignation, retirement, separation, cancellation of transitional appointments in simple positions of Permanent Plant and in Transitory Plants, conclusion or termination of the contract that had occurred during the year 2025. “That is to say , it is expected that to make any new hiring official, The public agency must report 3 personnel dismissals, whatever the cause.
Source: Ambito
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