Argentine court reinstates full force of Milei's labor reform
Key takeaways
- The ruling, issued by Federal Administrative Court No.
- The union federation has argued the changes are regressive and violate constitutional principles such as freedom of association and labor progressivity.
- The judicial battle of recent weeks centered on jurisdiction.
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An Argentine court on Friday lifted the precautionary injunction that had suspended 82 of the 218 articles of the labor reform pushed by President Javier Milei, restoring the full force of one of the most contested laws in the libertarian program.
The ruling, issued by Federal Administrative Court No. 12 under Judge Macarena Marra Gim nez, overturned the injunction handed down on 30 March by a labor court at the request of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the country's largest union federation. The judge held that the harm to the rights or guarantees invoked in the complaint does not arise clearly and unequivocally, given the breadth of issues addressed by the law, and warned that maintaining the suspension would mean advancing an opinion on the substance of the union's constitutional challenge.
The so-called Labor Modernization Law, passed by Congress in February following a general strike and large-scale demonstrations led by the CGT, restricts the right to strike, limits union assemblies, reduces redundancy payouts, authorizes shifts of up to twelve hours under certain conditions, and reclassifies platform workers. The union federation has argued the changes are regressive and violate constitutional principles such as freedom of association and labor progressivity.