Overview
- The measure secured general approval 42–30 after last‑minute bargaining, with support from La Libertad Avanza, the UCR, the PRO and several provincial blocs.
- The final Senate text keeps compulsory union dues with a 2% cap and compulsory employer payments to business chambers capped at 0.5%, dropping a planned expiration.
- The bill establishes a Labor Assistance Fund to cover dismissals, financed by employer contributions equal to 1% of payroll for large firms and 2.5% for SMEs from sums that would otherwise go to ANSES.
- The package reshapes employment rules by reducing indemnity calculations, prioritizing company‑level bargaining, allowing bank‑of‑hours, lengthening trial periods, enabling split vacations, and tightening strike and assembly rules.
- Street protests outside Congress turned violent during the debate, with security forces reporting at least seven personnel injured and 32 detainees, as the bill now heads to the Chamber of Deputies for further debate this month.