The reviews in the different sectors were postponed and this item was no exception. What would the deal be and what are the chances of delivering a bond?
For Alejandro DiBiasi
01/01/2023 – 7:25 p.m.
Between the elections in the strategic Union of Commerce Employees of the Federal Capital, the political-union discussion and the inflationary process, The merchants had one more than busy year that led to keeping the parities open almost all of 2022.
The negotiations between the union led by Armando Cavalieri and the representatives of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce (CAC), the Confederation of Medium Enterprises (CAME) and the Union of Commercial Entities (UDECA) focused on sustaining purchasing power without generating “job losses”, according to the sources consulted.
For different reasons, the reviews were postponed. The parties considered that in December the bonus was added to which was incorporated the 24,000-peso bonus that the Government ordered and generated crosses not only in commerce, but also in other activities. It is estimated that those who pay it, this amount will be incorporated into the basic in the coming months. Specifically, trade union representatives and The employers will meet in mid-January to, yes or yes, grant an improvement that exceeds 100 percent until April 2023.
So far, the commerce employees received 6 percent in April; 6 in May and 6 in June. It added 20.5 percent in August (10% corresponding to said month and 10.5% in January), 10% in September and 11% in November. The total is 59.5 percent. Therefore, the improvement would be above 40 percent in three or four sections.
Parity trading: business position on the payment of the bond
In a statement, CAME explained that in a meeting with the Minister of Labor, Raquel “Kelly” Olmos, and AFIP officials, reference was made to article 5 of the presidential decree, which provides that the payment of the bonus “may be absorbed until the concurrence in case it has been agreed or was provided for in the respective Collective Bargaining Agreements”.
In addition, it was recorded that the joint meeting will be held in the first half of January, in which CAME will request the absorption of the bonus paid to the increase provided for by the trigger clauseaccording to what was signed last March.
For her part, the head of the labor portfolio stated that the request is provided for in the last paragraph of the aforementioned article. Supposedly, the definition was passed for this month due to the lack of certainty regarding the fine print of decree 841/22 that established the $24,000 bonus. The idea of the joint members of the Argentine Federation of Commerce and Services Employees (Faecys) headed by Cavalieri was close at above 100 percent increase, as most have been doing of trade union organizations.
The sources consulted estimated there will be no salary changes in 2022, with the exception of the payment of the 24,000-peso bonus, which will be absorbed or compensated in some way with the new salary agreement to be negotiated in January.
With the intervention of Kelly Olmos, trade unions and chambers of the sector seek to agree on a salary increase.
Supermarkets pay a salary bonus of $30,000
On the other hand, the Federation agreed with the representatives of the main chains of the country the payment of a bond of 30,000 pesos. The benefit will reach the workers of all the branches of Coto, Carrefour, Cencosud, Chango Más and Día%.
Union sources explained that “Negotiation is easier with large companies; the problem is the medium and small merchant that it is difficult for him to face a salary plus a salary increase”. They indicated that the bonus of 30,000 pesos “You can pay both in cash and in supermarket products” in a modality that has been repeated in recent years and they added that “the majority of the workers take advantage of it and take it as merchandise, generally in food for the holidays.”
On December 16, the National Executive Branch ordered the payment of a one-time non-remunerative allowance for workers in a relationship of dependency in the private sector of 24,000 pesoswhich will be paid by employers within the month of December 2022. The sum is intended for those who receive net salaries (in hand), including remunerative and non-remunerative concepts and excluding the Complementary Annual Half Salary, lower $161,859 pesos.
Likewise, they warned “this amount will be proportional to the working day and it will be your employer/who must pay it” stressing that “in the event that the net salary is greater than the previously detailed sum, but less than 185,589 pesos, the difference between this last value and the net salary received must be taken”. As an example, they stated that if a worker charges 170,000 pesos, in this case he will receive the sum of 15,589 pesos, a value that arises from the difference between 185,859 and the salary received.
