They inspect in closed Buenos Aires neighborhoods by domestic / Argentina News

The Buenos Aires Ministry of Labor carried out inspections in countries and in closed neighborhoods of the province of Buenos Aires with the aim of supervising the work carried out by women who are dedicated to cleaning private homes, through the control of entry and exit records to those properties.

As reported, within the term of the program Registered (the State contributes for the payment of salaries), the Ministry approached material to facilitate the registration, which can be done 100% online through the AFIP.

One of the sectors most affected by the pandemic

The workers of private homes are in charge, for the most part, of single-parent homes and tend to carry out their work in informality, with violation of their labor rights, something that made this sector one of the most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Undersecretary of Labor Inspection carried out operating in countries located in the districts of Lobos, San Isidro, Almirante Brown, La Plata and San Vicente.

Ministry staff required the administrations to submit records of entry and exit of people to determine the number of workers who provide service in the neighborhoods, number of days and hours of their working hours and their registration status.

The objective of these inspections is for employers to register workers in private homes and submit the appropriate information to the Buenos Aires Ministry of Labor, for registration in the Special Registry of Private House Personnel, under warning of applying the sanctions established in the Regesil (Provincial Law 12,415).

The inspections on gated communities and neighborhoods had begun in October and, as a result of these tasks, four administrations were violated that did not make any presentation on their worker records.

How much do they charge since December

The increase in the salary of domestic workers agreed in October was recorded in two stages: the first was 6% which was paid in November and the remaining 2%, which is applied in December.

The last joint agreement for the workers of particular houses in Argentina it has an impact on what a domestic worker charges per hour or per month, according to the type of work in which she is framed.

Increases for domestic staff that will finish rounding a 50 percent annual hike. The same also applies to determine what a domestic worker charges per hour as long as it is formally registered.

The salary increase impacts on 1.5 million private house workers -both in what the monthly paid, with and without retirement, as a domestic employee per hour- and it was agreed that the next review will be in March 2022.

Regarding the previous increases, in June it had been decided to grant non-cumulative increases of 13% to domestic staff in Argentina as of June 2021; another 12% from September 2021; 5% from December 2021, and 12% from March 2022, with a review clause that month.

How much does a domestic worker charge per hour

As we said, the increase in December changes the scales and impacts what a domestic worker charges per hour in Argentina.

Staff can be registered blank with a monthly salary, which includes or does not include removal from the property where they perform tasks, or charged by the hour according to the amount of time required. In all cases, the increase in payment will be around a 50% increase this year.

Although the agreement has not yet been approved, the union that brings together workers in private homes published on its digital channels how the salary scales will be per hour and per month, according to the category in which it is framed.

Supervisors

For the first category, what are the supervisors (Coordination and control of the tasks carried out by two or more people in charge), what a domestic employee charges per hour in this case is 293 pesos if it is with retirement and 320.5 pesos without retirement.

Also, in this category, the income for domestic workers monthly It will be 36,586 pesos with withdrawal and 40,752 pesos without withdrawal.

Specific tasks

For the second category, of personnel for specific tasks, (cooks hired exclusively to carry out said work, and all other household tasks that require special suitability of the staff to carry it out) the hourly salary is 277 pesos with retirement and 304 pesos without it.

The monthly payments of this category will charge 33,990 pesos per month and 37,837 pesos, respectively.

Landlords and home care

For the third category What are the homemade or the personnel who perform tasks inherent to the general care and preservation of a home where she lives due to the employment contract (and therefore it is always without retirement) a domestic worker charges 261.5 pesos per hour, and 33,163.00 pesos per month if she is framed in that modality.

Non-therapeutic care and assistance staff

In the fourth category, which includes the personal assistance and non-therapeutic care of people (sick people, with disabilities, children, adolescents, older adults, etc.) a domestic worker will receive per hour in November 261.50 pesos if she works with retirement, and 293 pesos per hour if she does it without retirement.

However, if the person who performs third-party care tasks is under a monthly work regime, he will receive 33,163 pesos per month of salary if he works with retirement and 36,956.50 pesos without retirement.

General Tasks

Finally, in the case of fifth category, staff for general tasks of cleaning, washing, ironing, maintenance, preparation and cooking of meals and all other typical household chores, the hourly salary in November will be 242.50 pesos with retirement and 261.50 pesos without it.

General duty staff will be paid in November 29,823 pesos per month with withdrawal and 33,163 without it.

The personnel who carry out tasks included in more than one category will be included in the one that is the main one that they perform regularly, recalled the Union of Auxiliary Personnel of Private Houses (UPACP) that released this provisional scheme of what a person charges. housekeeper per hour in Argentina with the new scales.

The union has not yet published the scales of how much an employee charges per hour according to her category with the increase that the staff of private homes will receive in December 2021, but it is expected that by the time of that liquidation the aforementioned joint agreement will be approved and the scales are official.

How much does a blank maid charge per hour?

According to the INDEC Report in the first quarter of 2021, out of 1,533,000 workers of Private Houses, 67.7% (1,038,000) are not registered and only 495,000 work in the formality.

The data is close to those of the Ministry of Labor that as of June registered 474,578 workers in the sector with contributions to Social Security, although this statistic does not differentiate how much a housekeeper per hour or per month, according to their registered work modality.

On the other hand, it is worth remembering that the employer of a Private House worker can deduct the remuneration and employer contributions from the taxable income of the Income tax up to the maximum expected for 2021, which is 167,678.40 pesos.

The new joint agreement comes after the launch of the Registered Program subsidy of up to 15,000 pesos per month for 6 months to employers who earn less than $ 175,000 gross to register domestic workers. In exchange, the employer registers the worker and pays the percentage of the remaining salary, the contributions and retirement contributions, the ART (Labor Risks) and the social work.

The money that the State will put will reach the domestic workers through salary accounts that will be opened in the National Bank. And the registration process will be done online through the AFIP.