The national government decided to extend the measures announced yesterday by President Alberto Fernández, who licensed the over 60s considered within the risk group. “Let them stay in their homes, calm and enjoy,” said the president yesterday at the conference he gave with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof.
On Monday, Labor Minister Claudio Moroni and Secretary of Management and Employment Ana Castellani added public sector workers to that list.” They will be freed from having to attend their workplace,” officials announced today, referring to those over 60, pregnant women, workers with different health conditions and those who have to care for minor children.
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March 16, 2020
In that regard, they explained that workers “must set the conditions with their employer in order to do so” and their remuneration should not be affected. Castellani urged provinces and municipalities to use the home work modality with the exception of those “services that the authorities consider essential”.
