A few days ago, in a television interview, Patricia Bullrich She said that in a bakery in her neighborhood, where she buys cookies, they congratulated her on the modification of sick leave that is included in the labor reform. “There were two of those who run the bakery and they told me “it’s good about the licenses, because here they always screw us up,” said the Buenos Aires senator and explained: “We have to end up doing the work of the baker who hasn’t been here for a week, the work of the one who makes the croissants, who hasn’t been here for the other weeks. “Now they’re going to have to come to work.”
The anecdote did not go unnoticed by the production of the radio cycle. And now who can help us? from Radio con Vos, hosted by Ernesto Tenembaum. The journalist narrated on air that a producer of the program investigated the premises around the residence of the former Minister of Security and found the bakery in the story. “He spoke with a man who told him that there is an oven that has been stopped for months. Neither bread nor croissants are made there. He has an inclination to lie that is admirable,” the driver highlighted and closed: “Well, he had the ability to lie.”
The president of the ruling bloc of Freedom Advances In the Senate he has been one of the most visible voices of political support for the controversial labor reform promoted by the ruling party in the national Congress. Bullrich not only promoted the parliamentary schedule for the so-called “Labor Modernization Law” to enter into debate in the Upper House, he also publicly defended the need to move forward with the project and correct technical errors in the text without resigning its transformative spirit, as he did by ensuring that certain drafting errors on sick leave could be resolved in committees during the passage to Deputies.
From the Senate, the legislator aligned herself with the government’s strategy to introduce modifications and build a large majority that would allow the half-sanction of the project, articulating support with blocks of the PRO, the UCR and provincial groups in the face of strong opposition from the unions and part of Peronism. Her role was interpreted by political analysts as that of a “pragmatic negotiator” within the ruling party, capable of ironing out rough edges in the text without losing sight of the objective of advancing the reform beyond internal and external resistance to the governing space.
Bullrich has defended the labor reform even in the face of criticism against specific articles of the project, arguing that changes such as the establishment of new criteria for licenses or the reduction of burdens for employers are necessary steps to reverse the “rigidity” of the Argentine labor market. This position is inserted in the official discourse that the reform is a central piece of a broader plan to boost the economy and attract investments, although opposition and union sectors question whether such measures violate basic labor rights.
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