Job insecurity is advancing. Informal and self-employed jobs exceed registered workersas published by Indec in the report Income generation and labor input account corresponding to the second quarter of 2025.
According to the report in the second quarter of the year 22,536,000 total jobs were registeredregistered workers (public and private) are 11,122,000, Unregistered employees are 5,566,000 and self-employed workers are 5,848,000.. If these two types of work are added, there are 11,414,000. That is to say, They represent 51% of total jobs.
Labor flexibility not only worsened under this Government but has deepened in recent years. In the same quarter of 2016, unregistered and self-employed employees represented 47%.
Compared to 2023, jobs increased by almost 437 thousand, but driven by unregistered work (+175 thousand) and self-employed work (+319 thousand) while registered jobs were destroyed (-58 thousand).
Registered workers represent 49% of total jobs in the second quarter of the year when in the same period of 2016 it was 53%.
Of the total unregistered workers, private home workers lead the list of unregistered workers (1,107,589) and represent 20% of the total informal workers. They are followed by 1,035,626 employees in retail and wholesale trade, construction (610,967) and 517,996 in agriculture and livestock.
In the case of the self-employed, workers in commerce (1,868,544), in the construction sector (818,125) and in the manufacturing industry (773,976) lead the way.
Labor reform: and how are we going to get out? well digging
Big businessmen and the Government are already rubbing their hands together to promote a new labor reform as they made clear in the recent Idea Colloquium. The usual argument is to “modernize labor relations” to allow job creation. But in the 90s they already used the same excuse and it was a decade that left an increase in unemployment and job insecurity.
Big business owners only want to increase the exploitation of the workforce thanks to labor flexibility. Job insecurity is a central element for the maintenance of dependent capitalist Argentina, which compensates for its productive weaknesses by burdening the working class with the costs.
Assemblies in the workplace must be imposed on the CGT, the CTA and the unions to discuss a plan of struggle to confront the ongoing looting and anti-worker plans.
Work less to work for everyone
On the contrary, to this perspective of labor reform and structural impoverishment, the Left Front proposes reduce the working day to 6 hours and 5 days a week without salary reduction, with a minimum wage equivalent to the family basket y the distribution of working hours between employed and unemployed.
The proposal of the left is related to continuing to fight for employment with full rights, against job insecurity, and that no one earns less than what the family basket costs.
If the reduction in working hours were applied to the 12 thousand large companies a million jobs could be created in these firms in the country.
It is possible to carry out this proposal with the broad mobilization of the working class to face the resistance of the large employers who will oppose a measure that affects their profits, and with the perspective of the reorganization of production articulated not according to private profit but rather according to the needs of the social group.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
