MilHojas
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Workers in Argentina face the biggest blow to their employment rights since the military dictatorship of the 1970s
The protests against Javier Milei have lready begun.

Maybe, but employee rights are way below of most EU countries, where strangely this barrier isn't posing much of a problem. We won't pretend basic stuff Argentina has is preventing job creation and investments, that's first class bullshit. I guess Bangladesh is example Argentina should follow?The unions and are a huge barrier to job creation and investment in business in Argentina.
I was amazed at how penalties for keeping employees off the books (i.e. employed "en negro") are to be eliminated. From the Buenos Aires Herald (https://buenosairesherald.com/politics/what-does-mileis-massive-presidential-decree-actually-say):Maybe, but employee rights are way below of most EU countries, where strangely this barrier isn't posing much of a problem. We won't pretend basic stuff Argentina has is preventing job creation and investments, that's first class bullshit. I guess Bangladesh is example Argentina should follow?
Nonsense - you are obviously not a business person. my company had to pull out of doing business in Argentina due to excess employee liability costs and excessive strikes. They were cutting their own throats - not very smart at all although I suspect their Union bosses still did ok regardlessMaybe, but employee rights are way below of most EU countries, where strangely this barrier isn't posing much of a problem. We won't pretend basic stuff Argentina has is preventing job creation and investments, that's first class bullshit. I guess Bangladesh is example Argentina should follow?
Are you able to distinguish between eliminating excessive employment legislation, including excess employee liability costs, and creating an unregulated free for all which is what Milei's DNU aims to do?Nonsense - you are obviously not a business person. my company had to pull out of doing business in Argentina due to excess employee liability costs and excessive strikes. They were cutting their own throats - not very smart at all although I suspect their Union bosses still did ok regardless
For more than 6.000.000 Argentine workers already long-since working en-negro at average wages actually pretty comparable to average wages in Bangladesh, I guess they are already there.I guess Bangladesh is example Argentina should follow?
Somehow you mistake me for union guy, which I'm not. Have never been part of any union, in Argentina or elsewhere. I'm for strict implementation of already existing rules, work in black as the biggest task. You don't leave people to choose if to pay taxes or not, and you do that through punishment of companies, if they fail to comply. Imagine, how much money is missing in the budget, if 6 millions don't pay their share! Work in black is cáncer for society and should be harshly prosecuted.For more than 6.000.000 Argentine workers already long-since working en-negro at average wages actually pretty comparable to average wages in Bangladesh, I guess they are already there.
Take away the incentives for both the employee and employer to have a relationship “en-negro” and it simply looses its value proposition for both parts (It may come as a surprise to many, but the ones usually pushing to work en-negro are employees themselves who would rather take a cut of the money the employer would otherwise pay to the unions and state pension fund on their behalf or ask for half en-blanco and the other half in an envelope at the end of the month to improve their net incomes…. And once employers who have gone black, with current laws, they can never go back in all practical terms unless they are very rich and afford to pay for the Pandora’s box full of surprises that it opens).
What amazes me is that unions have never done anything about employment in negro nor those workers legitimate rights and instead constantly derail any effort from any angle to actually formalize or equalize employment across the board nor have they delivered any actual results on this front in decades, and now suddenly they care? (presumably because they smell where the money to be made and dealing with employees of micro enterprises or “poor” companies are simply more trouble than it’s worth… meanwhile for “rich” companies they have no problem - literally - doing inspections only to tell the employer they need to replace the toaster oven in the break room with a microwave or they may face a walk-out).
Don't worry I don't take your words for that of a union guy.Somehow you mistake me for union guy, which I'm not. Have never been part of any union, in Argentina or elsewhere. I'm for strict implementation of already existing rules, work in black as the biggest task. You don't leave people to choose if to pay taxes or not, and you do that through punishment of companies, if they fail to comply. Imagine, how much money is missing in the budget, if 6 millions don't pay their share! Work in black is cáncer for society and should be harshly prosecuted.
Unions are no one's friend, they are basically mafia at that point in Argentina. They fight for themselves and that's it.