In force since Sep 26, 2024
Ley Bases: labor modernization and registered employment
Ley 27.742, Titles IV-V (Decreto 847/2024); Title II Ch. IV (Decreto 695/2024)
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Labor
Ley 27.742 extends the trial period from 3 to 6 months, creates a severance fund set by collective agreement and opens regularization of unregistered work.
The other rules on this subject21
The comprehensive labor reform is now lawLey 27.802 (Official Gazette, Mar 6, 2026, promulgated by Decreto 137/2026)in force
Hire formally for 4 years with employer contributions of 2%+3%Decreto 315/2026 (Official Gazette, May 4, 2026), Ley 27.802 Title XXin force
Labor reform regulated: registration with ARCA, digital pay slip and the end of ultra-activityDecreto 407/2026 (Official Gazette, Jun 1, 2026)in force
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
The labor chapter of Ley 27.742 (Ley Bases) introduces: (1) Title IV - Registered Employment Promotion (arts. 76-81): a regime to regularize unregistered or deficiently registered private-sector labor relationships prior to enactment, with partial forgiveness of Social Security contribution debts; (2) Title V - Labor Modernization (arts. 82-98): it extends the trial period (from a base of 3 to 6 months, extendable by collective agreement to 8 months in companies of 6 to 100 workers and to 1 year in companies of up to 5 workers), creates the Labor Termination System as an alternative regime agreed in collective bargaining to replace the severance of art. 245 LCT, simplifies registration and aims to reduce litigation; (3) Title II Ch. IV - State Reform: it adapts the Public Employment Framework Ley 25.164. Regulations: Decreto 847/2024 (Titles IV and V) and Decreto 695/2024 (Title II - State Reform). Title V of this Ley 27.742 (2024) is in force and has no recorded judicial suspension; the injunction of ~82 articles (Judge Ojeda, March 2026, at the CGT's request, revoked by the National Labor Appeals Chamber in April 2026) corresponds to Ley 27.802 on Labor Modernization (Official Gazette 3/6/2026), a NEW and DIFFERENT law, not this rule. verif Sep 26, 2024 ↗
In force
Ley 27.742 is in force from its publication in the Official Gazette on 7/8/2024; the operational regulations of the labor chapter enter into force with Decreto 847/2024 (Official Gazette 9/26/2024) and, for public employment, with Decreto 695/2024 (Official Gazette 8/5/2024). verif Sep 26, 2024 ↗
Who it applies to
Private-sector employers and workers (regularization regime, trial period, Labor Termination System alternative to the severance of art. 245 LCT) and, through Title II Ch. IV, national public employment (adaptation of the Public Employment Framework Ley 25.164). verif Sep 26, 2024 ↗
The norm
Ley 27.742 'Ley de Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Libertad de los Argentinos' (passed Jun 27, 2024, published in the BO on Jul 8, 2024), Titles IV-V (labor) and Title II Ch. IV (public employment). Implementing rules: Decreto 847/2024 (signed Sep 25, 2024, BO Sep 26, 2024) regulates Title IV (arts. 76-81) and Title V (arts. 82-98); Decreto 695/2024 (signed Aug 2, 2024, BO Aug 5, 2024) regulates Title II - State Reform (public employment in Annex I, Ch. IV; it adapts the Ley Marco 25.164). verif Sep 26, 2024 ↗
Our reading
The Ley Bases modernizes the labor framework: it formalizes informal work with forgiveness, extends the trial period and enables by agreement a termination fund that replaces traditional severance. It is deregulation that lowers the cost and the risk of hiring (rule R4), a condition for registered employment to grow as activity recovers. To watch: the labor judicial front remains active, though the loudest noise falls on a later law (27.802), not on this chapter of 27.742. thesis
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Where it lands, province by province4
Neuquén The extended probation period —six months as a baseline, up to eight in firms of 6 to 100 workers and up to a year in those with up to five— is calibrated to the supplier ecosystem already in place in Neuquén, companies that hire by campaign (a pad, a fracturing season) rather than by calendar year. Probation now covers the length of the service contract. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
Río Negro Here the employer does not freely choose whom to hire: Ley 5804 requires 80% Río Negro labor, and VMOS has been meeting it — 8 out of 10 of its 5,600 workers are from Río Negro, in a decayed mining town of 9,076 people (2022 Census). With the local quota set by law, betting on the inexperienced worker is compulsory, and a probation period of six to eight months is what lowers the cost of that bet. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
Salta Article 18 of Ley 8164 requires 60% of payroll to live in the mining districts, and those districts are Los Andes (7,182 inhabitants) and La Poma (1,789): firms must hire from a small pool with no formal mining track record. The extended probation period and the regularization scheme with debt forgiveness lower the cost of getting a hire wrong from that pool. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
San Juan The provincial local mining development law requires 80% of payroll to be from San Juan, in a labor market that has never operated a copper mine: the contractor is forced to hire where the experience does not yet exist. Extending probation from three to six months lowers the cost of a hire that does not work out, and it is what makes the quota workable without giving up build quality. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
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