The debate on labor reform in the Senate continues. The ruling party is seeking to obtain the committee report this week
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The debate over the labor reform promoted by Javier Milei's Government continues this Thursday in the Senate.The ruling party is seeking to move forward toward signing a majority report, a key step to bring the initiative to the floor before the end of the year.
Starting at 9:30, the plenary session of the Labor and Social Security Committees, and the Budget and Finance Committee will receive the last speakers. The ruling party is not ruling out signing the report in the coming hours, although the original schedule calls for extending negotiations until tomorrow. The goal is to hold a session on December 26.
Patricia Bullrich preside el debate
Firm political leadership and clear debate
The plenary session is chaired by the head of the libertarian caucus in the Senate,Patricia Bullrich, who is leading the debate with internal cohesion and parliamentary order. The former Security Minister has consolidated herself as the Executive's main interlocutor, concentrating negotiations with dialogue-oriented caucuses and organizing the handling of the bill.
During the first day, representatives of the two CTAs and the CGT spoke, who, of course, criticized the initiative that goes against their privileges. Meanwhile, business leaders, banks, and representatives of the productive sector, including the agricultural sector, defended the spirit of the articles. They emphasized the need to modernize labor rules to boost formal employment.
Expusieron en la comisión referentes de la CGT
CGT returned to the same old script
At the close of the day, the CGT's three-member leadership—made up of Jorge Sola, Octavio Arguello, and Cristian Jerónimo—described the bill as "unconstitutional" and questioned the speed of the legislative process.
"You can't vote on a law in an express debate," Arguello stated, while Sola asserted that the initiative "goes against collective rights." The union leaders also announced protest actions. It is a reaction that constitutes a corporate defense of historical privileges rather than addressing the substantive technical discussion.
These criticisms are not new, but instead are part of the same pattern of resistance that for decades blocked structural reforms. This gave rise to the consolidation of a rigid labor market with high levels of informality.
The numbers that define the report
Both committees are made up of 17 senators each: five from La Libertad Avanza, five from Kirchnerism, and seven dialogue-oriented legislators.
The ruling party has 21 senators of its own and needs 16 more to guarantee a quorum on the floor. In that context, Bullrich is negotiating specific amendments with sectors of the Radical Civic Union, PRO, and non-Kirchnerist Peronism. The goal is to build a solid majority without forcing a narrow signing.
El Bloque de Senadores LLA
A key reform to leave behind the union model of the past
For the Government, labor reform is a central component of the economic program. It is aimed at facilitating hiring, reducing informality, and ending a regulatory framework that discourages the creation of private employment.
Despite opposition from the CGT and other sectors that have historically blocked changes, the Government is moving forward with the debate and is confident that the report can be finalized in the coming hours or, at the latest, this Friday.
The message is clear: labor reform is moving forward in the Senate, and for the first time in years union power is failing to stop an initiative that seeks to modernize the labor market and leave behind the same old privileges.
