The Minister of Labor of the Nation Kelly Olmos He spoke about the general level of prices, and assured that despite “the difficult impact” of the inflation data for January, the government’s goal “continues to be 30% for the first semester”, and therefore joint negotiations “should be maintained at that threshold”.
The official maintained, however, that “We are not opposed to the fact that the sectors can seek some additional point of recomposition”, but he insisted that “the goal of 30 points for the first half of the year remains in force”opined Kelly Olmoseven though the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January was 6% according to the INDEC, and raised the accumulated value of the last 12 months to 98.8%.
Kelly Olmos He spoke about the measure of force ordered by La Bancaria for Thursday, February 23, and highlighted: “the position of continuing to discuss the participation in the profits that the union has, as a virtuous objective”and pointed out that “the request of the bankers for the participation in the profits is emblematic.”
In relation to the Strengthen work plans, the Minister indicated that “There are 1,200,000 beneficiaries that are not correlated with the level of employment but with informality”, and pointed out that for this reason “tools are delivered, a complement for an informal sector that is a worker and is not unemployed”and regarding the modifications to the non-taxable minimum of the Income Tax, Olmos assured that “it is one of the government’s measures to recompose the salary outside the parity”.
Olmos assured: “We are working on aspects that do not impact a single union, but are much more horizontal to improve the income of workers”. The head of the Labor Portfolio remarked that she is satisfied that “with the Peronist governments we have to discuss the income tax, and when there are neoliberal governments we have to discuss to sustain jobs.”