Argentina's government publishes decree dismissing around 7,000 state workers

[Judi Lynn]

| YESTERDAY 12:46

Government puts damper on the festive celebrations of around 7,000 state workers with decree confirming their dismissal.


Argentina’s government has put a serious damper on the festive celebrations of around 7,000 state workers after publishing a decree that orders the cessation of their employment.

Carrying the signatures of President Javier Milei and Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse, the publication of Decree 84/2023 in the Official Gazette on Tuesday morning (December 26) confirms the dismissal of public employees who joined the civil service from January 1, 2023 onwards and are not considered essential.

In most cases, expiring contracts will not be renewed. The decree applies to those in positions without seniority within the government and decentralised state bodies, affecting non-permanent temporary employees "and any other type of contract that ends on December 31, 2023."

The decree also establishes new rules for the hiring of personnel. In addition, the executive branch vows in its decree to review the employment situation of state workers who have been in office since before that date.

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[DFW]

1. Actually, western Europe could use a good dose of that.

The governments of countries like Germany, NL, Belgium and France, for example, all have huge, bloated bureaucracies full of unnecessary “civil (hardly ever!) “ servants whose main function is to perpetuate their unfirable positions. “Beamten” in Germany, “fonctionnaires” in France, they are the same thing: useless paper pushers who are little more than taxpayer-financed office welfare. Their main purpose (even publicly admitted by some in interviews!) is to have coffee breaks, and to say “no” to people who manage to actually interact with them.

[peppertree]

2. Maybe - but in Argentina's case, when RW regimes do this, they almost always replace them with their own goons

Trump's pal Macri was very much given to doing this during his disastrous 2015-19 tenure - and with great fanfare.

Until it was revealed he had actually expanded the number of high-category federal posts by 75%.

These included not only relatives, mistresses, and right-wing ideologues who were often opposed to the very existence of the office they would now oversee (like the GOP does) - but dozens of internet trolls.

Once his debt bubble imploded in April 2018, and he went running to Trump to force the IMF to bail him out, the IMF at least forced him to dismiss most of those (the trolls were moved to offices funded by donors).

That said - this is the least of Milei's assaults on the Argentine economy, as well as the rule of law.

His mega-devaluation alone has pushed monthly inflation from an already-awful 8% monthly - to 30% just in December (the highest on earth).

And the depression he's throwing Argentina into, pretty much guarantees that wages will barely rise at all. Unemployment? Forget the 5.7% he inherited; they're now looking at 15% minimum.

That's just one example - the most obvious, I'd say. Milei's illegal decrees (acknowledged as such by even RW lawyers) are not only rescinding protections against unpaid overtime, wage theft, junk insurance, bank fraud, and much more - but are even moving to nationalize $50 billion in private debts.

Which is exactly what the last dictatorship did in '82/'83 (a ruinous regime Milei and his VP publicly admire).