Milei dismisses 7,000 public workers (+ Argentina)

As part of the package of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, it is expected that 7,000 government employees will be dismissed, through a decree that prohibits the renewal of state workers' contracts.

According to Telesur, the determination is part of the new economic adjustment plan with which the president wants to redirect the Argentine economy, since among the measures has been the dissolution of nine ministries. The total number of layoffs corresponds to all the personnel that were hired during this year.

As it became known, the provision will reach workers in the National Social Security Administration (ANSES), the Comprehensive Health Care Program (PAMI) and the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP).

At a press conference, the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, indicated that public contracts registered in 2023 that end on December 31 will not be renewed in 2024, while the rest will enter a ninety-day review process.

With regard to social plans, the Argentine Executive will begin auditing more than one million social plans and predicts, based on the calculations of judicial investigations, that 160,000 beneficiaries may be receiving these grants “irregularly”.

According to the spokesperson, these plans would have a total value of 10 billion Argentine pesos ($12.45 million). “Argentines should not be in charge of this money,” Adorni emphasized.

This Tuesday, the Argentine Congress begins extraordinary sessions convened by the ultra-liberal president Javier Milei to debate complementary laws to a mega-decree of economic deregulation resisted by the opposition and the labor unions that ask the justice system to declare it unconstitutional.