Argentina’s government will appoint Julio Cordero as the nation’s new Labour secretary following the dismissal of Omar Yasín.
Cordero, a labour lawyer with the Techint Group owned by billionaire Paolo Rocca and vice-president of the social policy department of the influential UIA (Argentine Industrial Union) business group, will succeed Yasín, whose firing was announced by President Javier Milei in a television interview on Monday.
Yasín is taking the fall for the recent pay scandal that saw a 48-percent wage increase for Executive Branch positions authorised in error, according to Milei.
“I dismissed him for a mistake which should not have occurred. He’s being notified as we speak”, said Milei during a television interview.
The president has said the rise will be quashed.
Cordero is also Argentine delegate to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) representing employers, in addition to vice-president of the Instituto Derecho Social y del Trabajo (Social and Labour Rights Institute).
The incoming official participated in the drafting of the labour reform chapter of Milei’s sweeping state deregulation Emergency Decree 70/2023, which the president issued late last year and has been delayed by the courts.
Sources within the libertarian administration cited by Perfil say they take it for granted that Cordero will be in tune with Milei’s thoughts on labour and union matters. Inside the Casa Rosada, different sources admit that Yasín was being closely watched by Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse.
The formal justification for the dismissal is that the head of state had previously asked the official, designated to the Human Capital Ministry, to ensure that a resolution approving salary hikes in January clarified that pay rises did not apply to Executive Branch officials.
Yet a source from the Casa Rosada told the Noticias Argentinas news agency that there were “differences in standards” with Posse and that the oversight triggered the exit of the aforementioned labour lawyer.
– TIMES/NA/PERFIL
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