Within the framework of the quarterly salary review of the parity, this union sealed an agreement for a 130 percent year-on-year increase
By Alejandro DiBiasi
17/04/2023 – 21,30hs
Representatives of the Argentine Federation of Agents of Medical Propaganda (FAAPROME) and the Industrial Chamber of Argentine Pharmaceutical Laboratories (CILFA), the Business Chamber of Pharmaceutical Laboratories (COOPERALA) and the Argentine Chamber of Medicinal Specialties (CAEME) reached an agreement within the framework of the quarterly salary review of the parity, sealing a 130 percent year-over-year increase for the workers and workers of the activity.
The General Secretary of the Medical Visitors GuildSalvador Agliano, explained that with the improvement, “they guaranteed April wages with a basic of 306,942 pesoswhile in May it will be 327,404.80 pesos” and remarked that “in annual terms we achieved an increase of 130 percent due to inflation of 104.3 percent in the same period, for which we are satisfied.”
However, the union’s Deputy Secretary, Ricardo Peidro, pointed out to iProfesional thatWe are going to continue discussing with employers about care spaces for children between 45 days and 3 years old, in accordance with the Labor Contract Law” and clarified that “a new meeting has already been agreed for July, where we will analyze the progress of inflation and its impact on the income of workers in our sector.”
How is the salary of medical sales representatives?
The salaries of the medical sales representatives are made up of an initial and other additional ones that, with the increases applied, will be as follows:
With the improvement, April wages were guaranteed with a basic of 306,942 pesos
April
- Basic $220,542
- Sample holding $43,200
- Marketing $43,200
- Minimum guarantee $306,942
Mayo
- Basic $235,244.80
- Sample holding $46,080
- Marketing $46,080
- Minimum guarantee $327,404.80
Seniority must be added to this income (limit 15 years), which is $2,558.40 in April and $2,728.96 in May.
Income tax claims
Although the Government announced that there will be a modification in the application of income taxwhich will not be applied to additional and overtime, among other items, Peidro maintained that “it was also a subject of analysis and debate with the cameras, because we want it to be established within the joint agreement or determined in the collective agreement the exclusion of certain variable items that are not covered by the Income Tax”.
In this regard, he stated that the result of this management was negativeTherefore, they await the Executive’s decision through a resolution that the Ministry of Economy will provide in the coming days. Some versions indicate that it would be part of a package that will be announced by the head of the Palacio de Hacienda, Sergio Massa, as a benefit for some 600,000 workers and workers from different activities.
The medical sales union sealed a 130 percent year-on-year increase
Aglaino, stressed that “With this increase we managed to maintain the purchasing power of salaries; but as it is a parity of short calls, it allows us to monitor the inflationary process that is hitting the lowest income sectors very hard, because the most important rises are being registered in food“.
Rejection of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund
Peidro, in his role as Deputy Secretary of the Autonomous CTA, stated that “this inflationary process is the product of the debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gestated by the government of Mauricio Macri, but with responsibility in the current management, which endorsed it and continues to carry it out, adjusting to those who have less and generating more poor and indigent month by month “.
He stressed that “the Fund is not better because it does not ask for a labor or pension reform” and called on the Government “to implement the necessary measures to stop with the remarking of food prices that have to go to the table of Argentines; the The humblest class can no longer wait, so an urgent universal increase is necessary to compensate for the loss of purchasing power”.
