Claudio Moroni, the outgoing leader of the Ministry of Labor, who held the position since the beginning of Alberto Fernández’s administration, retires with an unemployment rate of 6.9%. In his own words, he is “one of the shortest ever measured”.
His management in organism was marked by giving back to the area the hierarchy that it had lost during the government of Mauricio Macri, where the Ministry of Labor he was demoted to secretary, and managed to lower unemployment after the crisis caused by the coronavirus, which has plagued the world since December 2019.
Moroni, when he was still leading the Ministry of Labor, expressed that the unemployment rate may continue to fall after touching 6.9%. In addition, he assured that “Argentina is one of the countries that lost the least salary in the region and the world” after the pandemic and the subsequent Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The outgoing minister added that, in the latest data from July and August, the growth rate of salaried employment is 0.6%. According to him, it is a “very high figure for Argentina” because “it means 36,000 monthly jobs.” In addition, he specified that it has been repeating itself over the last 19 months and is “a situation of growing employment at high rates for what is Argentine history.”
Who will replace Moroni at Job
Raquel “Kelly” Olmos was appointed this Monday as the new Minister of Worked, after the departure of Claudio Moroni. The economist is the current vice president of the Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade (BICE), She was also a Buenos Aires leader of the Justicialist Party (PJ)councilor and legislator of the City of Buenos Aires.
She also has a degree in Economics from the UBA, with a master’s degree in Urban Economics and a postgraduate degree in Formulation and Evaluation of Investment Projects. She, in turn, was secretary of Municipal Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior of the Nation, director of the Buenos Aires Sur Corporation, secretary of Social Promotion and Production of Services, and undersecretary of Industry and Commerce of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
Lastly, she is Senior Counselor and Director of the Institute of Administration, Government and Economy of the University of Tres de Febrero.
