The struggle to beat the high inflation suffered by Argentines is carried out on several fronts, one of which consists of the economic measures adopted by the Ministry of Economy, chaired by Sergio Massa, so that the increase in the prices of goods and month-to-month services continue to slow down. The other dispute is about recovering the consumption capacity of workers through parity. In this last paragraph, the sector of Commerce closed its annual meeting with an increase of 101%.
The Argentine Federation of Employees of Commerce and Services (FAECYS) together with the Argentine Chamber of Commerce (CAC), the Confederation of Medium Enterprises (CAME) and the Union of Commercial Entities (UDECA) signed the annual parity with an increase of more than 100 percentage points. sayings organisms They complied with the measure that will be in force from April 2022 to March 2023.
Regarding the wages of workers Commerce involved, the basic will rise from 139 thousand pesos to 182,700 pesos per month. The agreement that increases wages was signed in the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security with the supervision of the minister of the portfolio in question, Kelly Olmos. According to the interannual inflation data registered by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) in 2022, this was 94.8%, and the estimates are that prices follow the deceleration curve.
In this way, through the agreement of the organisms that unite the claims of the workers in the sector with the Chambers of the sector, it was possible for the employees of Commerce to overcome the inflation that occurred during 2022. The salary increase will be granted in two tranches, having in February the basic with presenteeism in 165 thousand pesos and in March 182,700 per month.
Fair Prices
One of the measures that allowed the control of increases in the prices of products from different items was the program Fair Priceswhich consists of freezing the values of at least 2,000 mass consumption items such as food, beverages, personal hygiene and cleaning products, and, in turn, allow increases of up to 4% per month in 30,000 goods of these categories.
Sectors such as fuel were incorporated into the price program, negotiating with the main distributors (YPF, Shell), clothing and footwear, pharmaceuticals, strategic inputs for the industry, among other items that the Government agreed with the companies that agreed voluntarily.
