The Minister of the National Economy, Sergio Massa, after negotiating with the leadership of the CGT, resolved that they will stop paying the Income Tax for overtime, per diem and other additional salary agreements received by more than 600,000 formal workers.
This was confirmed last night by sources from the Ministry of the Economy who worked on the preparation of the measure, which will be made public on Monday with the endorsement of union leaders.
The sources of the Treasury portfolio also highlighted that the pocket salary increase, depending on the areas in which the beneficiaries work, will be up to 16 percent.
The decision was cooked up in a meeting between Massa and the priests of the workers’ union, including Pablo Moyano, Héctor Daer, José Luis Lingeri, Sergio Palazzo, Andrés Rodríguez and Jorge Sola.
According to official sources, the following concepts will no longer pay Profits “generating a positive impact on the salaries” of the workers reached: bonuses for productivity, cash failure and concepts of a similar nature; the additional ones for mobility, per diems and other similar compensations; overtime, rotating shift bonuses and other similar ones.
From the Palace of Finance, the deputy minister Gabriel Rubinstein, the head of Customs, Guillermo Michel, the secretary of Finance, Raúl Rigo and the undersecretary of Public Revenue, Claudia Balestrini, were at the drafting table of the document.
In the conclaves between both parties, the union leadership demanded that the benefits that had already been granted to other unions, such as teachers and oil workers, be extended to all areas. It is that in recent months there were individual opinions by presentations of various unions and chambers, so now a general measure was signed up.
Balestrini will publish an opinion from his body in the next few hours, which will then be endorsed by an AFIP resolution. From that moment on, the new measure will remain in force.
