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Macri in the threshold of a major political storm over a possible veto of a labor bill
Argentine president Mauricio Macri is expected to veto a controversial labor bill which was approved early Thursday after a marathon session in the Lower House of Congress. The bill passed with 147 votes in favor, 3 votes against it and 88 abstentions includes the declaration of the employment emergency during 180 days and a double compensation in the event of layoffs, for a period of six months. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesRgs refuse to take their medicine.
May 20th, 2016 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Moyano the younger is as stupid as his dad.
May 20th, 2016 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is it about unions that they cannot see and most certainly do not understand that only profitable companies have a future?
It was thus in the bad old privatized BLMC days until Maggie brought in Sir Michael Edwardes (as he became) as Chairman and the Managing Director.
His brief as he explained it to The Beloved Margaret was to make it turn a profit or close it, she agreed and backed him accordingly.
Macri needs a few like Edwardes and balls as big as Maggies to make a go with Argentina. AND, of course good luck.
major political storm ,
May 20th, 2016 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or the Perfect storm,
it sank.
Not just a possible veto, but a signed veto.
May 21st, 2016 - 03:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1900920-mauricio-macri-firmo-el-veto-a-la-ley-antidespidos
We are left to wonder how Argentina is going to someday attract foreign investment to bring jobs when it passes such overtly anti-business legislation. The answer, of course, is that the legislature doesn't really want to see successful businesses this year. And maybe not the next, either.
Stupid rgs.
May 21st, 2016 - 08:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0In just a short time, president Mauricio Macri has succeeded in unifying the whole opposition for a law against layoffs.
May 21st, 2016 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The current process in Argentina contain unique elements, in that it's the first time an project to turn back the clock and curtail social progress is attempted by an elected government.
Similar projects in the past were undertaken through military dictatorships, where workers' initial resistance was quashed with extreme violence that peaked with thousands imprisoned, tortured and killed during the 1976-1983 regime.
It will be interesting to see for how long Macri can contain social unrest with his famous motto that “layoffs are needed in order to create jobs.”
Dictatorships never lasted decades in Argentina as they did in other Latin American countries--only a few years.
A positive side in the current situation is that Macri has shown his true colours right from the beginning, leaving no possible doubt about his restoration of privileges for the wealthy.
Why, even Massa felt his group had to vote for the labour bill.
Macri may think he's very smart using his veto powers.
His signature has opened the first chapter of the story of his demise.
Tick tock.
@6 Reekie has reminded us that in Argentina, both private industry and the governments are expected to carry on their payrolls all manner of dead wood, whether there is productive work for them or not. The law that was passed to keep unproductive people on the payroll is also a very conspicuous notice to all other employers that they should not take on additional workers. And a warning to foreign investors that Argentina is no place to run a profitable business.
May 21st, 2016 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In fact, Reekie supports the political party that maintains on payrolls the sort of people who don't even show up except when it's time to collect the cheque for doing nothing.
So long as there is a single peroncho, Argentina will continue to be jodido.
IF SOMEBODY SEES THE FUTURE, TELL IT TO COME TO ARGENTINA.
May 21st, 2016 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When the present is a shit, like what we are living in the country, because of the regressive measures taken the by the new government, which most of them aim to benefit the richest sectors of the society, people don't have just memories of better times, citizens have the fight, and if we fight, we will get rid of this reactionary government in 2019.
It's not a matter of personalities, it's actually a matter of national projects. Unfortunatelly, when we we warned during the campaign that if Macri won the election, he would apply the hard cuts that he is implementing now, most of the voters decided to believe Macri's victimization, when he accused us of making a fear campaign against him, anyway although it's too late to change the result of the election, it's not late to take concience, and think much better when we vote in 2019, because beyond the powerful media corporations that support Macri and his pro business government, now the we are living the true face of conservatives.
It's more than evident that if Macri signed a document with the most important enterprices of the country to avoid more layoffs, is because we are going through a hard crisis in relation to the creation of jobs, it's not just a kirchnerist relate, although some businessmen cleaned their asses after signing it, because they continued to fire more workers.
Beyond the usuall dirty strategies that he uses to confuss our society, that law just avoided layoffs without a fair cause, and if an enterprice has difficulties to keep their workers, the government can help it with the repro programme, which exists since 2008.
However, as i said some days ago, it was obvious that he wasn't going to let the opposition parties to take a political advantage with a law proposed by them, that's why he decided to veto it.
No, Axis, Macri signed the veto because it is a monumentally stupid and counterproductive law that will harm employers, cause businesses to delay hiring new workers, promote corruption, increase costs and inflation, and discourage foreign investment . Which of course it what kirchnerismo is all about, isn't it?
May 22nd, 2016 - 12:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is evidently quite impossible to explain to a peroncho that when an employee is no longer a productive “worker” that it's time for that person to seek opportunities elsewhere.
Axis, ¿querés saber el futuro de la Argentina? Un desastre. ¿Sabés por qué? Porque el país está gestionado por argentinos.
@ 9 Marti Llazo
May 22nd, 2016 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0How true that final sentence is!
It also applies to Uruguay but run by Uruguayo children.
Marti #7:
May 22nd, 2016 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“So long as there is a single peroncho, Argentina will continue to be jodido.”
Marti #9:
“Argentina's future is a disaster because it's administered by Argentines.”
So Marti begins by dismissing all Peronists--and two posts further he dismisses all Argentines.
I can't believe we've been debating how to improve Argentina for decades and we never saw the solution to all our problems.
We just need to replace the country's population by say...U.S. citizens including those of Mexican and Cuban origin? Or may be Islanders? No wait...better be Japanese--not Italians, certainly!
I am astounded by Marti's depth of thought. Quick, let's make him head of Argentina's new Ministry of Death so he can begin working at it!
Reekie, we have just the solution for this enduring problem of the Argentos being unable and unwilling to decently administer the country !
May 22nd, 2016 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So here is the deal: we're going to put Argenzuela into receivership (it's bankrupt anyway) and appoint a more effective governing body. Henceforth no argento will hold public office or manage any agency or company having more than six workers. That will help cut down on the corruption just a bit. Hint: Argentinish will no longer be the official language as the country learns the language of the new administrators from Sweden. Glädje ! Glädje och lycka för alla!
Ha ha.
May 23rd, 2016 - 04:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Soooo funny Marti.
I am sure Argentines will seriously consider your innovative idea.
You should go down there and spread the good news straight to the citizens, say Plaza Congreso, el Obelisco or even Plaza de Mayo.
I'm sure Porteños will push and shove to personally reward you for your efforts.
Please let us know!
@13 Reekie, We'll just watch the argentos continue their implosion and self-destructive practices. So much easier and so much more amusing than promoting corrections and solutions. You ought to visit Argenzuela someday to see for yourself.
May 23rd, 2016 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The next riots are scheduled for the first week in June. I do so love the smell of burning tyres and looted buildings in the morning.
This is what happens when some people follow the game of what we call in Argentina, la tilingueria (ignorant and mediocre people who don't think, and just underestimate all those who don't think like them). Fortunatelly i decided not to waste my time with that sort of social scum, that's why i never answer the comments of people who underestimate me, or insult me, i think that perhaps Enrique Massot should do the same, instead of wasting so much time with people who just want to show how much they hate Argentina, and what kirchnerism represent.
May 24th, 2016 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, Axis, please don't go. We need constant assurance that the degree of foolishness, ineptitude, corruption, deceit, and failure that is promoted by kirchnerismo is every bit as real as we observe.
May 24th, 2016 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 15 axel arg
May 25th, 2016 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, please don't go! What will we do for comedic relief?
The Lunatic of Chew Butt is fading fast and no longer provides the barrels of laughs he once did. Many of the K clan have been banished to hiding from the authorities over graft and corruption and as for Gollum and Bog-brush Anibal The Cannibal they have all disappeared from the papers apart from Bow-wow who, like TMBOA, is still fighting going to prison.
You have to admit that apart from The Malevolent Midget Malcorra and the laughable attempt at putting her at the head of the UN, Macri's government is boringly competent and forward thinking.
#17 ChrisR
May 26th, 2016 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Macri's government is boringly competent and forward thinking.”
Now, we will have seen it all!
ChrisR provides us with the assurance that all is well in Argentina, as Macri's government is not only “boringly competent” but “forward thinking.”
Thanks Chris. I did not come to check these posts for nothing. Laughing is healthy and you have provided me laughs for the rest of my day.
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