Milei sacks official responsible for outrageous pay hike
Tuesday, March 12th 2024 - 11:05 UTC
Argentine President Javier Milei Monday sacked Labor Secretary Omar Yasín following the scandal whereby a 48% pay hike decreed for Casa Rosada staffers ended up impacting the salaries of the head of state and all cabinet members. “He made a mistake he should not have made,” Milei argued about the lawyer stemming from the ranks of former President Mauricio Macri's PRO.
“I have fired him for this mistake, a mistake he should not have made,” Milei explained after his measure was affected by a decree signed by then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in the early 2010s which provided that politically-appointed hierarchs should not earn less than the people under them.
“In January we gave the order not to increase salaries of hierarchical personnel,” the President stressed while underlining that such an adjustment never targeted “the political positions.”
Milei said that he sent a decree going back on that increase for hierarchical positions and the amounts already paid would be deducted from next month's wages.
The President came under heavy criticism for this “accounting error,” particularly from CFK. “She is very worried about the retirees, I told her to resign to her privileged retirement since she is so worried. She should go for the minimum, she did cheap psychology,” Milei argued. “Since I saw you so worried about pensions, what do you think if I cancel the $14,000,000 that you receive as a privileged retirement and assign you a minimum retirement? I don't think you will complain,” the President went on.
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