2023-07-03 14:10:26
Sonia Kopprio, General Secretary of the Domestic Staff Union of Río Negro and Neuquén, referred to the last increase arranged for domestic workers. He also provided a overview of the situation of the sector.
With the beginning of July, governs the last tranche of the 27% increase for the wages of workers in this sector. This is the last tranche of the three installments that began to be paid in April. In this context, employers with domestic workers They must pay 6% in the first days of July corresponding to the third tranche.
«The increase was exceeded by inflation. It has an impact on the Christmas bonus but it is exceeded by inflation. We are below, below inflation and below the family basket,” Kopprio lamented in dialogue with FM Capital.
«Many employers have been unwilling to pay the raises. Due to necessity, the compañera bows her head and continues working,” said the general secretary of the union, who announced that next week she will be in the City of Buenos Aires to discuss parities once more.
«In March we asked for a 30% increase. They wanted to give us 12% in installments. We didn’t even buy potatoes with that. Finally they gave us 27% that I abstained I did not sign I did not agreeKopprio recalled.
In that line he advanced: «We are going to have to negotiate month by month because inflation surpassed us. It’s not enough for us. The employer always has an excuse to pay the raises.
Domestic workers: parity and changes in categories
«We are going to parities due to the category changes in the matter of hours. The hour of an employee has to be 2500 pesos. He can’t work for less,” said Sonia Kopprio, general secretary of the Domestic Staff Union, announcing that they will ask for changes in some categories. “Employers take a colleague with a category and They exploit it,” he denounced.
In another section of the interview, Kopprio recounted that many workers at the supermarket checkout «they leave products because the money is not enough«.
«The situation with registered work has not changed. Those compañeras are paid much less. They play with the need of the workers,” he said.
Finally, he denounced that the employer has reduced working hours but does not compensate as established. “The law establishes that You can lower the days and hours of work, not the salary“, he stressed and mentioned that he currently has more than 20 mediation hearings for this issue.
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