Cornejo promotes a labor reform in Mendoza to modernize public employment

The governor of Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo, submitted a bill to the provincial Legislature to reform the Public Employee Statute aimed at modernizing state administration, organizing the labor system, and ending privileges that for years have caused inequality among workers.

The initiative seeks to make hiring processes more transparent, provide opportunities for those currently working informally to enter the system, and adapt the rules to the needs of a more efficient State.

The "interim staff" category

One of the central points is the creation of the "interim staff" category, which will allow thousands of workers currently hired under precarious arrangements such as monotributo, service contracts, or temporary contracts to be regularized. This new category means that those performing permanent tasks will have real, formal labor coverage under clear rules.

Unlike what union and left-wing sectors claim, the measure doesn't create precarious conditions: on the contrary, it formalizes situations that until now have been completely unstable. Instead of keeping thousands of employees "covertly off the books," Cornejo proposes to incorporate them with a category that provides predictability for the State and for the workers themselves.

End of fictitious seniority

The bill also establishes that those entering under the new category will not carry over previous seniority caused under irregular contracts.

This prevents abuses and ensures that all workers compete on equal terms within the state system.

More discipline and efficiency

The reform introduces more agile sanctions for minor offenses, avoiding endless processes that often shielded inefficiency and indiscipline.

This means that managers will have concrete tools to ensure order and productivity, without bureaucracy preventing corrective action when appropriate.

Review of severance payments

Another proposed change is the update of the severance system. Until now, there have been privileges that allowed employees with many years of service to receive disproportionate payments compared to others.

With the reform, severance pay will be calculated more fairly and equitably: one month's salary for each year worked, without arbitrary multipliers.

A step toward a fairer State

Cornejo's initiative seeks to balance the system. Today, while a few enjoy absolute job security, thousands of Mendoza residents work in the same public administration without access to any rights. The reform corrects this inequality and gives the State tools to be more efficient and responsible with taxpayers' resources.

With this reform, Mendoza is on track to have a more modern, fair, and sustainable public employment system, leaving behind practices that benefited a few to the detriment of the majority.