Argentine Judge Freezes 82 Provisions of Milei’s Labor Reform

Overview

• Judge Raúl Horacio Ojeda, who issued the order Monday, granted a precautionary request from the CGT that freezes 82 articles pending a merits ruling.
• The freeze stops a longer workday of up to 12 hours without overtime, cuts and installments to severance pay, tighter strike rules with broader essential services, and the reclassification of platform workers as independent.
• It also blocks scrapping the telework law, setting up an individual hours bank, splitting vacations by rule, and creating the Worker Assistance Fund that would replace severance.
• Ojeda cited danger in delaying review, warning of irreparable harm and possible hits to social security if the new fund and other changes took effect.
• The government can appeal, and the pause leaves employers and workers in legal limbo as courts weigh a reform passed by Congress in late February that unions call unconstitutional.