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Argentina’s Lower House Backs Milei Labour Reform Bill without Article 44

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Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies approved President Javier Milei’s “labour modernisation” bill on Thursday, but with a last-minute change that removed article 44, one of the proposal’s most disputed provisions. Because the text was amended, it must return to the Senate for a final vote, a timetable the government wants completed ahead of the March 1 opening of the ordinary congressional session.

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Of the 26 titles and more than 200 articles that make up the labor reform that was approved in the Chamber of Deputies, there is only one indispensable for Luis Caputo, Minister of Economy: the one that creates the Labor Assistance Fund (FAL), an instrument that although it was designed to finance the severance payments, economists and opponents warn that, in fact, it will serve to anchor the State at the expense of the definancing of the social…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The amended text, without the reduction of the licenses for accidents and diseases, must now return to the Senate, where the official will try to give it definitive sanction before Milei inaugurates the ordinary sessions on March 1. The role of the governors to guarantee the quorum and sustain the articles more questioned

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The labor reform promoted by President Javier Milei took a key step in the lower House and now must return to the Senate of the Argentine Nation in order for legislators to validate the changes introduced by the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation. The Senate committees were convened to issue an opinion and enable a session scheduled for Friday 27. If the upper House approves the text, the law will be in a position to be promulgated by t…

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The ruling party approved in Deputies the labor reform in a tense session and marked by scandals Political Buenos Aires, 19 February (NA) — In an extensive session with scandalous borders, amid mobilizations throughout the country and a general strike of the CGT, the ruling party managed to approve in the Chamber of Deputies the labor reform and now the bill will be forwarded to the Senate to analyze the modifications applied in the drafting.

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With 130 deputies, the ruling party achieved the quorum just after 14 hours to advance in the debate of the labor reform, on a day crossed by the general unemployment. The libertarian strategy aims to close the vote in general before midnight and the ruling bloc is confident to gather the necessary support for approval. The greatest challenge will be in the voting in particular of the articles, where the opposition will attempt to introduce addi…

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Filo News broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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