The decision of the national government to bring forward to June 1 the entry into force of the increase in the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary (SMVM), which will become $45,540 and $47,850 in August, was celebrated by political, union and social leaders .
The measure was made official this Wednesday in the Official Gazette through the publication of the resolution signed by the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, which advances the validity of the increase in the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary.
In this way, with the new dates for the minimum wage update brackets, the amounts will be, as of June 1, $45,540 for monthly workers and $227.70 the value of the hour for daily workers.
As of August 1, meanwhile, the minimum wage will be $47,850 for monthly workers and $239.30 the value of the hour for daily workers.
? The National Government advanced the increases in the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary.
As of June 1, it will be $45,540, and in August it will be $47,850 pic.twitter.com/bkhHhul7uZ— Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (@MintrabajoAR) May 11, 2022
Thus, the minimum and maximum amounts of unemployment benefit they will remain at $12,650 and $21,083, respectively, as of June 1; and $13,292 and $22,153, respectively, as of August 1.
The Presidential Spokesperson, Gabriela Cerutihighlighted on his Twitter social network account that with this measure “the recovery of Argentina is with the workers” and announced that there will also be “improvements” in the programs ‘Potenciar Trabajo’, ‘Acompañar’ and in the insurance of unemployment.
In this regard, the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Labor, Robert Sukermanasserted that “the sooner money can be injected into the worker sectors and the most vulnerable sectors, of course it is always welcome.”
“It is clear that we have a problem in Argentina, which is inflation, and we cannot allow ourselves to have the level of needs and poverty in Argentina,” Sukerman told Radio Nacional de Rosario.
“We must take into account that the one who benefits from the debates to redistribute wealth is always the people. These are the issues that we must address in Argentina”Vanesa Siley, national deputy of the Front of All
As the CGT did through a statement on Tuesday in which it celebrated the measure and registered it in the “constant and fluid dialogue” with the authorities of the labor portfolio, the national deputies of the Front of All of union extraction, Sergio Palazzo Y vanessa sileyagreed to highlight the measure of Alberto Fernández’s management.
Siley, who last week had accompanied the draft resolution of the national deputy Máximo Kirchner to advance the minimum wage, said: “We must bear in mind that the one who benefits from the debates to redistribute wealth is always the people. These are the issues we must address in Argentina.”
“The measure is intended to fulfill a promise that led us to be a government and that is that wages beat inflation and that is why we have to deepen these debates,” remarked the deputy and secretary general of the Buenos Aires courts in statements to FM radio Futurock.
For his part, the deputy of the FdT and general secretary of the Banking Association, sergio palazzorecalled that “last year the collection of the quotas scheduled in the Salary Council had already been advanced to July and we requested that it be done again this year because of how inflation was coming.”
“It seems to me a very good measure of the national government. It is in line with the fact that salaries do not lose against inflation. From Congress we had promoted a project with the union deputies, the social movements and Máximo Kirchner to propose the advancement of the collection of the quotas of the Minimum Vital and Mobile Salary, there is another review in August with which another update can be discussed so far this year,” Palazzo said.
“The advancement is a reference for the set of parity in discussion and impacts on the workers of the popular economy”Daniel Menendez
Along the same lines, the national deputy and former Minister of Social Development, Daniel Arroyomaintained that “this opportunity comes because we need wages to reach and improve.”
While, Daniel Menendezundersecretary for integration and training policies of the Ministry of Social Development and coordinator of Somos Barrios de Pie, considered that raising the minimum wage “is in line with defending the purchasing power of wages” because “the defense and improvement of income is part of a central policy of the national government”.
Likewise, he maintained that “the advancement is a reference for the set of parity in discussion and impacts on the workers of the popular economy”.
? The National Government advanced the increases in the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary.
As of June 1, it will be $45,540, and in August it will be $47,850 pic.twitter.com/bkhHhul7uZ— Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (@MintrabajoAR) May 11, 2022
Speaking to radio FM La Patriada, the coordinator of Somos Barrios de Pie stated that “we must move forward on the problem of inequality and falling wages,” for which he stressed that the advancement “is not an isolated measure” due to that also “the Food Card has been increased by 50 percent and a bonus policy has been made.”
The advancement of the minimum wage “is part of a universe of measures whose horizon is the recomposition of income.”
For his part, the secretary general of the Civil Personal Union of the Nation (UPCN), Andres Rodriguezpondered in radio statements the decision of the national government by stating that “the advancement of the increase in the minimum wage is something positive” and stated: “We hope that the workers will beat inflation this year and that inflation will go down, because until now the Inflation forecast is between 58% and 60% by the end of the year and we expect wages to beat it”.
