2023-09-16 18:02:00
The Budget and Finance Commission chaired by the Frente de Todos deputy, Carlos Heller, received officials to debate the “Mipyme Employment” project. The initiative obtained a majority opinion. The Together for Change bloc will present its own opinion. The Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Security of the Nation, Raquel Olmos – invited to explain the project – stated that the law has 3 objectives: “to promote the formal hiring of workers; formalize unregistered work through a regularization scheme aimed at SMEs; and transform, gradually, and with a federal criterion, the social labor programs and social security benefits into quality formal work.”
Likewise, the official explained that “we are currently in the period of longest growth in relation to the last 14 years, in the creation of registered employment, that is, in a relationship of dependency and of a private nature.” “We have been creating formal employment in the private sector for 35 months and 590,000 people have managed to access formal work in private companies,” she noted, adding: “However, the rate of unregistered employment remains very high.”
Olmos, at the same time, raised the “benefits of the law” regarding the reduction of employer contributions and access to a scheme for regularizing unregistered labor situations.
Meanwhile, the Undersecretary of Public Revenue, Claudia Balestrini, expressed that “it is a program with a clear objective that is associated with a public policy that is to favor the hiring of personnel, in a relationship of dependency of workers, not only young people or those that they have social plans but it is a generalized criterion with different benefits.”
“As a public policy, it originates a tax expense and that expense has to be controlled for the effectiveness of that policy that has been implemented,” he maintained and continued: “The project has two chapters and the objectives are compatible: regularization of the labor market and encouraging contracting labor relations.” Likewise, he described that the hiring must have an increase in the payroll, with a term of 24 months and “they do not have to have pension debts or be included in Repsal.”
For her part, Mara Ruiz Malec, general director of AFIP Social Security Resources, explained that “there was good growth in employment in the private sector at more than interesting rates, even above the growth of activity.” “We had good measures for micro businesses such as taking and accounting for payment of the check tax; “We established in record time the possibility that the fixed sum established by decree will also be on account of the contributions for micro and small companies.”
“We are not going to have any operational problems to implement this measure if it is approved.” We have a history of similar programs both in reducing contributions and in forgiveness and also moratoriums. It is a project applicable in a relatively short time for the AFIP systems,” considered Ruiz Malec.
Along these lines, the AFIP official highlighted that “we hope to reach 120,000 registered workers, but labor informality is concentrated in small establishments, so given the body of inspectors we have, we would never be able to cover everything. We are based on the perception of risk and in addition to other measures that help regularize jobs,” she pointed out.
The Secretary of Industry and Productive Development, José de Mendiguren, stated that “what concerned us most was providing answers and this is an issue that we always debate, how we can lower the labor costs of SMEs and facilitate hiring.” “In particular, there is a specific situation to work quickly with a set of measures in the face of what we know is a problem in the country that did not come with a comfortable situation of reserves or internal or external financing,” he stated.
“This project precisely has the purpose of being able to quickly reach small and medium-sized companies to help them continue to maintain employment, the level of activity and for the government to continue collecting through greater economic activity.” “We have the level of unemployment at the lowest level in the last 10 years,” added the Secretary.
Finally, the Commission ruled on the project under review by which a farm owned by the national State is transferred free of charge to the municipality of Viedma, province of Río Negro; and the initiative to create the Inclusive Argentina Program for the ongoing training of public employees and officials in the appropriate treatment of people with disabilities.
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