ministerio de trabajo, empleo y seguridad social dirección de asuntos internacionales meeting of...

Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad SocialDirección de Asuntos Internacionales

Meeting of the Working Group 1 of the XV IACML

Panel 2 - "The responses of Ministries of Labor and the perspective of social Actors to the current economic crisis”

Washington

May 20 , 2009

2 Dirección de Asuntos Internacionales,Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social.

Responses to the Argentinean crisis

(2001 – 2002)


• In the year 2003 the State recovers its role as state, installing decent work in the center of public policies.

• A model of central growth centered in the production to generate quality employment was defined as a pillar to promote social inclusion and strengthen democratic governance.

The promotion of decent work as State policy


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Re-installation of labor inspection

Simplification of registration.

Impulse to social dialogue and collective

negociatión

Reform of the labor norms.


INCOME INCOME POLICYPOLICY

Fixed Salary increments

Implementation of the transference

programs of income throught

families.

Extension of the welfare coverage

Applied increases on the minimun

salary.


EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT POLICYPOLICY

Employment Offices Network (Municipalities).

Policies of training and prefessional formation.

RSE Program for Decent Work

Insurance for unemployment

with a non contributive

origin


• Strong coordination or articulation of policies (Ministries of Economy, Foreign Affairs, Social Development, Health, etc.)

• New institutional conditions

• Technical Assistance (ILO / UNPRE – IDB / ECLAC / UNPD).

• Re-activation of Institutional Federal Spaces (CFT).

• Regional Iniciatives (CREM-Mercosur Strategy of Growth andEmployment).

Establishing conditions for the new political agenda and the new context


Obtained Results

1991-2001 2003-2007

Annual Growth average of the GNP

2,9% 8,6%

Employment Elasticity - Product

0,45% 0,62%

Annual Occupation Growth (in thousands pf

persons)

+77 +771

Unemployment (accumulated in millions)

+1,6 -1,8

Registered Employment (annual in thousands of

persons)

- 16 +456

Industrial Employment (in thousands of persons)

-17,6 +98

Collective Negotiation (annual average of

agreements and conventions)

191 718

Net change in the number of enterprises

-17 mil +90 mil

Tasa de desempleo

12.1

11.1

10.1 10.2

8.7

9.8

14.814.414.5

13.2

12.1

13.0

7.3

7.88.08.4

7.5

8.18.5

10.4

11.4

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

4°Trim03

1°Trim04

2°Trim04

3°Trim04

4°Trim04

1°Trim05

2°Trim05

3°Trim05

4°Trim05

1°Trim06

2°Trim06

3°Trim06

4°Trim06

1°Trim07

2°Trim07

3°Trim07

4°Trim07

1°Trim08

2°Trim08

3°Trim08

4°Trim08

Reducción 50% - 7.2 p.p.

Salario Mínimo 2003-2009

0

200

400

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800

1000

1200

1400

Ene-0

3

Mar

-03

May

-03

Jul-0

3

Sep-0

3

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3

Ene-0

4

Mar

-04

May

-04

Jul-0

4

Sep-0

4

Nov-0

4

Ene-0

5

Mar

-05

May

-05

Jul-0

5

Sep-0

5

Nov-0

5

Ene-0

6

Mar

-06

May

-06

Jul-0

6

Sep-0

6

Nov-0

6

Ene-0

7

Mar

-07

May

-07

Jul-0

7

Sep-0

7

Nov-0

7

Ene-0

8

Mar

-08

May

-08

Jul-0

8

Sep-0

8

Nov-0

8

Ene-0

9

Crecimiento 520%


Fuente: MTEySS – Social Security Secretary

5658

5654

52 5250 49 48 47

57

71

93

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90

100

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

The welfare coverage of senior adults passes from a 47% to a 92.8%

Obtained Results


Specific Responses against the

international crisis


• Although the crisis striked the labor market , the registered employment continues to show growth in inter-annual terms.

• The rate of unemployment didn’t rise, still this is due to the

unregistered employment growth.

• The adjustment of employment is verified more by a contraction of the incorporations than by a arise of the dismissals.

• Around half of the announced dismissals by the enterprises in the last months are in a negotiation processes.

Employment in the Argentina of the crisis


Fuente: MTEySS – SSPTyEL, en base a EIL.

0,0

0,5

1,0

1,5

2,0

2,5

3,0

3,5

4,0

IV-07 I -08 I I -08 I I I -08 IV-08

Tasa de Entrada Tasa de Salida Tasa de despidos

Evolution of the incorporations and laid-offs


Articulation of the policies to face the crisis

(institucional and economic policies)

Industrial Policy :• Support to the SMEs.• Conditioned credit to employment manteinance• Credit Lines to re-activate consumption

Macro-economic Policy :• Public investments Program in infraestructure.• Nationalization of the Social Security system : Allows to

direct the investment of the savings to long term projects with high social impact.

Institucional Policy :• Creation of the Ministry

of Production.• Policies for Sectorial

Support with clauses for the defense of employment.

• Creation of the Table of Production and Employment.

Anti-crisis Policies (defense of employment

and social welfare)BOARD OF PRODUCTION

AND EMPLOYMENT


Articulation of the policies to face the crisis II

(social and labor policies)

Labor Policy :• Application of the Preventive Crisis Procedure (PPC) to avoid downsizing.• Budgetary expansion of the Programa de Recuperación Productiva (REPRO).• Intensification of Training Programs.• Reduction of employers’ contribution in case of employment formalization.• Extension of Training and Employment Insurance.

Social protection Policy :• Raise in the allocationd for families.• Increase of programs of direct transfers.• Statization and extension of the Welfare System.• Increase of the retired and pensioned by application of the Law of Movility

Anti-crisis Policies (defense of employment

and social welfare)BOARD OF PRODUCTION

AND EMPLOYMENT


INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT

VARIACION 1° Trim 08 / 1° Trim 09

País 1° Trim 08 1° Trim 09 Variación

Argentina 8,4 8,4 0,0%

Alemania 7,9 7,9 0,0%

Brasil 8,4 8,6 1,6%

Portugal 7,7 8,4 9,1%

Francia 7,8 9,0 15,4%

Chile 7,6 9,2 21,1%

México 3,9 5,0 28,5%

Suecia 5,5 7,9 43,6%

Estados Unidos 5,3 8,8 66,0%

España 9,6 17,4 80,3%

Irlanda 4,8 9,9 106,3%

Fuente: SSPTyEL, en base a Institutos de Estadísticas Nacionales y Eurostat.

Rate of unemployment at international level


• The characteristics of the current economic and finantial global crisis make difficult to predict its evolution and its impact in different countries.

• Due to this, the importance of the public policies accentuates, in order to mitigate the negative effects on the population and on the internal transmission mechanisms

• There isn’t a unique form of orchestrate the relation between globalization and its social impact : is important to recognize the levels of freedom of the national policies.

16 Subsecretaria de Programación Técnica y Estudios Laborales

As conclusion


• Coordination of the policies as leading framework before the crisis

• Role of the ML: the compliance of the labor rights and the defense of employment

• Encourage social dialogue and collective negociation

• Assurance of social protection

17 Subsecretaria de Programación Técnica y Estudios Laborales

PROPOSALS


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