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.
