President Alberto Fernandez He said this Wednesday from Bali that he is “working and advancing” with the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, in the possibility of granting a year-end bonus for formal workers.
“We are working. Surely we will meet with the Minister of Labor (Kelly Olmos) and Sergio and we will make a decision there. We are discussing it with Sergio on the return trip,” the President said in statements to the radio 10 minutes before boarding the flight that will bring him back to the country after the tour of France and Indonesia, where he participated in the G20 summit.
“We are advancing. We are on the subject,” added the president.
In France, Fernández had also made statements on the subject and had endorsed the delivery by the end of the year of an extraordinary bonus for formal workers “basically because in Argentina parities work fully“.
In a press conference at the Argentine Embassy in Paris, the President said a few days ago that “what must be allowed is for parities to work” freely and remarked, in response to a query about the inflation rate, that this system “has taken into tells all that reality”.
According to the president, “interfering with a fixed sum at the lowest wages also generates many problems in many places,” because the lowest scales “are in the municipalities and in small businesses.”
“The risk that is run in this case is to generate a fiscal problem in the municipalities” and another “also in many small businesses, which I have no doubt would solve by having their employees leave the formality and move them to the informal sector,” he said. .
“We have to recover everyone’s wages, including those with the lowest income” Alberto Fernanfez
In this sense, he maintained that “we have to recover everyone’s salary, including those with the lowest income” and stated that “the parity method is the appropriate method.”
“In the emergency, coming to the end of the year, We understand that there are more delayed salaries and we are going to try to come to their aid.“, contributed the President and clarified that this will be seen “when we arrive in Buenos Aires”.
