News of jobs

Argentina now has almost 2.9 million self-employed tax-payers

08-03-2023 22:52 Registered wage labour accounts for 10,187,000 people in total (including the private and public sectors and domestic service), according to the Labour Ministry.

EMPLOYMENT & JOBS

Eight million Argentines of working age are jobless, says report

16-02-2023 14:54 A private report prepared by Fundación Éforo underlines high number of people who neither have nor seek employment, despite being of age.

Bloomberg

Most of Argentina’s poor kids have at least one working parent

15-02-2023 23:20 In the first half of last year, 9 out of 10 children living in "monetary poverty" in Argentina came from households where at least one person had a job, according to a new UNICEF report.

SURVEY

Poll: Almost 7 in 10 Argentines are unhappy with their jobs

17-01-2023 17:14 New survey by the Bumeran job portal shows that people living in Argentina are among the most dissatisfied workers in the region; 67% are unhappy with their jobs and 61% think their pay isn't enough.

EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT

Study: Only a third of secondary school graduates land quality jobs

12-10-2022 22:10 Percentage shrinks to nine for those who do not finish schooling; Study, carried out by the Observatorio de Argentinos por la Educación and CIPPEC, also shows lower female access to quality jobs.

by Santiago Rojas

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Unemployment dropped to 6.9% in second quarter, says INDEC

22-09-2022 18:38 Unemployment fell to 6.9% in the second quarter from 9.6% in the same period last year, according to official data, in large part due to the coronavirus pandemic.

NEW MEASURES

Argentina seeks to shift all-cash workers into payroll jobs

30-08-2022 15:06 Policy aims to target welfare recipients who opt for informal, all-cash jobs to avoid losing government benefits and persuade them to stay in the system.

iPod RIP

The end of the iPod: How Apple's now discontinued music player transformed an industry

11-05-2022 13:18 Apple on Tuesday put out word it is no longer making iPods, the trend-setting MP3 players that transformed how people get music and gave rise to the iPhone.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

INDEC: Unemployment dropped to 7% in fourth quarter of 2021

24-03-2022 15:54 National statistics bureau reports lowest joblessness rate since 2016 and highest employment rate in five years.

WORK & CULTURE

Latin America's IT brain drain a regional challenge

23-03-2022 14:45 In Latin America, like elsewhere, demand for software engineers, developers and programmers has exploded. But companies face an "enormous" deficit in skilled IT professionals, according to experts.

BLOOMBERG

Latin American unicorns are helping drive a regional hiring boom

10-02-2022 15:41 The number of tech, remote firms hiring more than tripled; Argentina, Brazil and Mexico attract the most new hires.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Argentina's unemployment rate fell to 8.2% in third quarter

21-12-2021 18:43 Year-on-year unemployment in Argentina fell by 3.5 percentage points in the third quarter of 2021 to 8.2 percent, according to official data.

FORMAL EMPLOYMENT

Government launches 'Registradas' plan to tackle unregistered labour

29-09-2021 15:20 State to pay 50% of newly registered domestic worker wages for six months under new government scheme designed to tackle informal labour.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Unemployment dropped to 9.6% in second quarter

24-09-2021 02:27 Among men, unemployment affected nine percent of the economically active population in the second quarter, with the figure rising to 10.4 percent for women.

BLOOMBERG

Debt load threatens Latin America jobs recovery, World Bank says

14-09-2021 12:06 Latin America’s heavily-indebted corporations are likely to delay rehiring workers during the recovery from last year’s slump, according to the World Bank.

Bloomberg

Pandemic slashes pay for workers in Latin America’s black economy

31-07-2021 00:28 Latin America's job market is going deeper into the dark, with a surge of off-the-books employment trapping millions in an abyss of worse pay, unstable work and dependence on government aid.

LATIN AMERICA

Trans workers breaking barriers in Brazil

22-07-2021 09:58 A growing number of training programmes aimed specifically at transgender people are helping workers break through barriers in Brazil.

LGBT+ RIGHTS

Argentina’s Senate approves transgender job quota law

28-06-2021 16:11 Senate backs sweeping legislation that reserves one percent of all public sector jobs for members of the trans community.

JOBS & LABOUR

Digital jobs precarious and unstable, Cepal and ILO warn in report

19-06-2021 09:34 In Argentina between four and five out of every six delivery platform workers are immigrants, says new study.

EMPLOYMENT

Government extends ban on lay-offs until May 31

22-04-2021 23:35 Alberto Fernández administration extends its ban on job dismissals until May 31, except in the construction industry.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

IMF: Latin America rebound imperiled by virus resurgence

15-04-2021 16:52 The economic rebound forecast for Latin American this year faces risks from the recent resurgence of Covid-19 and slow vaccine roll-outs, the International Monetary Fund said.