The General Confederation of Labor’s (CGT) Joint Secretary General Héctor Daer, called for reducing the 48-hour working week in an event today for International Workers Day in Buenos Aires City. “The 48-hour working week is anachronistic because worker productivity has grown exponentially, so we have to discuss and modify it,” he said, in the Defensores de Belgrano football club. Currently, Argentina’s law allows a maximum of eight daily work hours six days a week or 48 hours a week total. Left-wing coalition Frente de Izquierda has proposed to reduce it to six hours a day or 30 hours a week. The labor leader mentioned the current “inflation process,” which he said was a “macroeconomic” issue, but he also blamed businessmen for it.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald May 02, 2023 23:34 UTC