For some weeks now, the Government has been analyzing the idea of paying a year-end bonus to workers in a dependency relationship, which was confirmed in the last few hours by Kelly Olmos.
The Minister of Labor He stated that it will be a bonus and not a fixed sum, as Vice President Cristina Kirchner had suggested, since “the parity process that is being carried out is being very vigorous and is achieving a high recovery,” as he explained. Kelly Olmos.
In that framework, Kelly Olmos He explained: “Interfering in the parity process does not seem to us the most appropriate thing”, and that in any case the Government analyzes the best strategies to compensate for the loss of purchasing power of workers due to inflation.
“We are working on a year-end bonus for the active sector framed in joint ventures”assured the minister, which was later ratified by the presidential spokesperson Gabriela Cerruti at a press conference.
“There is no fixed sum for anyone, if alternatives are being studied so that wages beat inflation and the parities are achieving it,” explained Cerruti, who also explained that the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, and elms.
For her part, the Minister of Labor assured: “We recognize that there is a pending matter which is the enormous demolition of the purchasing power of wages that occurred during the administration of Mauricio Macri.”
In radio statements with Futurock, the official He also stressed that the Government seeks a “difficult balance between rebuilding and betting on breaking high inflation, which, otherwise, continues to erode all the efforts that are made.”
How much would the bonus be?
Although the Government has not yet confirmed how much the year-end bonus would be for formal workers, it is speculated that the figure will range between $45,000 and $50,000which would remain to be defined.
Meanwhile, the ANSES (National Social Security Administration) pays the first of two installments of $22,500 that will be paid for Food Reinforcement to citizens in situations of extreme vulnerability.
