On 30 March, an Argentine labour court judge partially suspended the "labour modernisation law" following a legal challenge filed by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), the country’s main trade union. This legislation, approved by the Argentine Congress in February, marked the beginning of the second part of ultraliberal President Javier Milei’s mandate.
A labour magistrate partially suspended Javier Milei’s “labour modernisation” law on 30 March. Consequently, 82 of the law’s most significant and controversial articles are currently frozen until the judiciary rules on the merits of the text. According to the court ruling, this suspension is justified by “serious and grave” indications of unconstitutionality, notably threatening freedom of association and the irreversibility of labour rights. The articles in question concern restrictions on the
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Flora Genoux
Freelance