Overview
- Lawmakers approved the reform 135–115 after nearly 11 hours of debate, sending the revised text back to the upper chamber.
- The package eases dismissals, trims severance scales, allows shifts of up to 12 hours, broadens what qualifies as essential services during strikes, and permits splitting paid leave.
- A 24-hour general strike by the CGT and CTA disrupted transport nationwide, with Aerolíneas Argentinas canceling about 255 flights affecting more than 30,000 passengers.
- The government presents the overhaul as a modernization to boost hiring in an economy where informal work exceeds 40%, while the CGT brands it regressive and unconstitutional.
- President Javier Milei highlights inflation’s fall to about 32% interannual under austerity policies that coincided with roughly 300,000 job losses over two years.