May 6, 2024 – 10:17
The general decline in consumption continues to hit the industries Rioja and began to have an impact on the employment sector, with layoffs and suspensions that especially condition the sector in this first four months of the year. A study by the provincial government determined that there were a total of 198 layoffs between January and April 2024, while in the same period of time the suspensions of workers exceeded 350 in the sum of the different companies.
The most affected sectors are the industries of the textile, metallurgical and footwear sectors, with a special notoriety in the clothing sector, where sales to the domestic market plummeted with a drop of over 50%.
The official survey also points out that Numerous companies are experiencing significant delays in paying salaries for the month of March. and that others have permanent rotations in staff shifts. Two even closed their doors directly and stopped working.
On the other hand, UNIR warns that this scenario is produced by the conjunction of two elements that are hitting at the same moment: there is an increase in fixed costs due to salary increases and the increase in gas and electricity rates, and at the same time At the same time, there is a marked drop in consumption.
During last February, the average salary in the construction sector in La Rioja reached $386,581 and that figure showed an increase of 176.7% compared to the same month in 2023. Despite this, in the same period the Inflation reached 272.3%, which determined that salaries lost 95.6% of their purchasing power in the period analyzed.
The figures were published in the current situation report prepared monthly by the IERIC, which also compared salaries in the sector with respect to the previous month. In that sense, salaries in the sector had an increase of 5.1% compared to January. In January the average salary was $346,589 while in February it rose to the aforementioned $386,581. That is, there was an improvement of almost $40,000 between one month and the next. That month – February – inflation in the region that makes up La Rioja was 11.7%.
Meanwhile, nationwide, average salaries in construction reached $465,112 in February. This means that in February construction salaries in La Rioja were $78,531 below the national average. The data in this report only covers registered workers and the average salary mentioned is in relation to the workload established in the collective labor agreement that governs the sector and according to which said workload cannot exceed 9 hours of work. daily.
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