Workers cannot collect compensation and companies cannot pay it. The Mandatory Labor Conciliation Service (SECLO) was created in 1996 through law 24,635. It is an organization dependent on the Ministry of Labor that regulates and approves individual claims of a labor natureunder the jurisdiction of the National Labor Justice.
Specifically, it is the area in which workers and their employees negotiate the terms of a job termination or the compensation conditions in the event of workplace accidents. Is about an immediate mandatory instance, prior to the start of the labor trialand its purpose is precisely to prevent conflicts from reaching justice by generating agreements between parties, regarding possible compensation or other disputes of a labor nature.
In order for the agreement to be valid and, therefore, for the company to comply with the provisions and at the same time to prevent the worker from moving forward through legal means, The agreement must be approved by the Ministry of Labor, with the signature of the Director of the SECLO.
According to the specialized portal Diario Judicial, the organization has been virtually paralyzed for more than a month and a half, a period in which none of the agreements reached were approved. The inflationary context is an aggravating factor, since the delay significantly reduces the purchasing power of the compensation amounts set.
It happens that in mid-April and with the signature of the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Petovello, provision 223/24 was announced, which formalized the appointment of a new Director, Pablo Palacios Anchorena, on February 5. However, the official decided to leave the position that – according to what was revealed – will fall to Carlos Moya, whose appointment has not yet been formalized.
During the period, The organization was left headless and the lawyers could not approve their agreements with serious affectation; especially for workersbut also for companies that could suffer lawsuits.
In statements to the aforementioned portal, Nahuel Altieripresident of the Asociación Abogados del Fuero and director of the CPACF Labor Law Institute, noted that «serious harm is being caused to the hundreds of laid-off workers and, eventually, to the sick and injured in the case of self-insured employers«.
The compensation is liquefied
The specialist pointed out that “we have been without approvals for a month and a half. A month and a half in an inflationary context where workers cannot collect and employers cannot paybecause there is no certainty that said agreement is approved and has the same force as a sentence.
On the other hand, Leonardo Suarezpresident of the Association of Labor Conciliators (ACLARAM), explained to the same medium that while the approvals of agreements take on average about ten days, “now, There are 2,200 workers who are waiting for compensation«. Other versions indicate that the number could reach up to 4 thousand.
The dispute reached the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital (CPACF) that, through its owner Ricardo Gil Lavedra, formalized concern about the delays. The labor portfolio, according to the same portal, “announced that the May designation is in an advanced stageso they estimate to regularize the situation of the homologation procedures as soon as possible.
