The Government once again put on the agenda the labor reform with the argument of creating jobs. In the history of the country it has already been shown that this did not happen, it only advanced job insecurity that expanded the pockets of the employers.
Meanwhile, employment continues to decline. According to data from the Ministry of Labor based on SIPA records, In August alone, 10,555 registered private jobs were destroyed, while the monotax increased by 5,539 compared to July. The monotribute in many cases are hidden dependency relationships. Thus, labor relations became precarious, both in the public and private sectors, where workers have to pay the monotax to be able to invoice a hidden employer, thus losing almost all labor rights.
Luis Camposcoordinator of the Social Law Observatory of the CTA-Autonomous, warned on the social network
If you look at the SIPA records, From November 2023 to August of this year, almost 492 thousand registered jobs were destroyed (-491,860). Of that total, the losses were: social monotribute (-389,360); private registered (-138,573); registered public (-60,509); private home workers (-24,714); and self-employed (-444). On the contrary, there is more employment in monotax (up 121,740) in the same period. If registered private and public workers and private household workers are considered, 223,796 were lost in the same period.
Campos warns that “the dynamics in the private sector are worrying. After the sharp fall in the first half of 2024, a slight recovery had begun. This rebound stopped at the beginning of 2025 and starting in June a new phase of destruction began.”
“The decline in employment in the private sector began a few months before the change of government. Against August 2023 we are talking about 177,648 fewer workers. The current levels are below those of 2015,” adds the specialist.
Salaries on the floor
For its part, the purchasing power of salaries does not recover everything lost since the devaluation at the beginning of the Milei government.
This Wednesday the Indec announced the Wage Index of September. The purchasing power of registered salaries is still 5.5% below November 2023.
Meanwhile, the purchasing power of private registered workers It fell 0.7% in September compared to November 2023, and is still 24% below 2015 (September 2025 versus October 2015).
The greatest decrease is observed in state salaries, also affected by layoffs and scrapping of programs. In it registered public sector Purchasing power collapsed by 14% thanks to Milei and Caputo (September 2025 versus November 2023). The loss compared to 2015 is 39%.
The workers of the national public sector lost 32.6% in the Milei era while in the provincial public sector the drop was 6.3% in the same period.
The living conditions of the working class will not improve with a labor reform, we must reject the project and achieve work with rights for all. We must impose on the CGT, the CTA and the unions assemblies in the workplaces and coordinators of struggle of all those who want to confront this attack.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
