Decree 149/2025, which was published on Wednesday in the Official Gazette and ends with the mandatory contributions that companies had to pay to the employer, especially benefits the trade sectorsince it ends a monthly fee for “training” that governs since 2008 and now It will volunteer.
In practice, they were about $ 5.6 billion per month that the sector transferred to the Argentine Institute of Professional Training for Commerce (INACAP). A fee of $ 4,725.02 as of March for the nearly 1.2 million workers of the guild.
“There is no public accountability of what is done per year with those funds that manage the business unions such as the Argentine Confederation of the Medium Enterprise (CAME), “they said from Cadam, which gather the wholesalers.
The quota, approved within the framework of the commercial agreement, involves the 0.50% of the salary for the initial master categorythat is to say, increases with each parity. That is why from Cadam they had been requesting that it would be voluntary, since it had to be paid “although employees never train.”
“These types of contributions only increase labor costs because It does not represent any benefit for the worker or for the employeeif he decides not to train, ”they said from the camera and added:“ In any case, that if a company wants to contribute to the business guild to do it voluntarily, but we must end this type of mandatory boxes that increase the Argentine cost”.
For the wholesale sector, which uses 10,000 people, the end of the contribution will mean a monthly savings of about $ 47 million.
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They ask for Came’s intervention
After the official measure, the Federal Confederation Pyme Argentina He went out to ask for the intervention of the Argentine Confederation of the Medium Enterprises (CAME) for the management of these funds.
The president of the Federal Confederation SME Argentina, Mauro González, indicated that “there are already complaints before the government to investigate What was done with these funds, since for example, Came opened a showroom in Brazil, And we want to know if the funds that should go for training were used. ”
They also asked to investigate the real representation of the cameras that receive these funds To “train”, since there are suspicions that there would be a “rubber stamps engineering” that claim to represent shops and are not even entrepreneurs or have no real impact that justify the diversion of funds. “Concrete cases were exposed,” said González, who anticipated that the complaint was filed by Came’s membership cameras.
“The Lack of transparency And public accountability of the INACAP, is more than remarkable. There is no way, as a merchant forced to provide monthly, to publicly access this information. Nor as Socia Entrepreneurs know what amounts and what entities are sent funds, because it is discretionary, “Gonzalez said.
According to the CAME statute, the entity must be directed and managed by a Board of Directors composed of ninety 90 regular councilors, and although Came says to concentrate more than 1400 partners, in the current driving the influence of Chaco cameras inside of the authorities that manage and control part of the billionaires funds are For others striking.