The Court suspended the application of the labor chapter of the DNU on economic deregulation

The government suffered its first judicial setback on Wednesday after the National Chamber of Labor issued a precautionary measure that suspends the application of the labor section of the DNU on economic deregulation signed by President Javier Milei. A precautionary measure suspending the applicability of the provisions of Title IV of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency No. 70/23 is issued until a final judgment is rendered on the substantive issue aired in these proceedings,” the judges decided in the framework of the file inaugurated from a presentation by the CGT. The reforms had been introduced by the government in Decree 70/23 that the president presented on national television surrounded by his closest officials and Federico Sturzenegger, the architect of the text. In their ruling, Judges María Dora González, Andrea García Vior and Alejandro Sudera argue that the Executive Branch’s extensive justification on the seriousness of the country’s economic situation is insufficient to demonstrate the urgency of implementing structural changes in labor laws, especially when some of those regulations are criminal in nature. The chamber members also pointed out that the president of the Nation could have called extraordinary sessions in Congress if he considered the treatment of the labor reform a priority. Thus, at least temporarily, the Judiciary put the brakes on the reforms announced by the national government in a sensitive area such as labor, and which earned the CGT a call for a general strike for January 24, when it will be only 45 days after the new administration took office. At the same time, opposition legislators express their objections to the Decree. Not so much because of the content but because of the way the president tries to impose the reforms. In any case, the measure runs until it is repealed by both Houses.

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