Labor: the company agreement beats the industry union deal

Title XIV of Law 27,802 rewrites four sections of the collective bargaining statute (Law 14,250) and changes who wins when two agreements overlap. The new section 19 sets the order of precedence and says, verbatim: "An agreement of narrower scope prevails, within its personal and territorial scope of representation, over another agreement of broader scope, whether earlier or later". The new section 18 reinforces it from the other side: "Collective Agreements of broader scope may not modify or determine the content of agreements of narrower scope". In parallel, the new section 4 removes the company-level agreement from the homologation bottleneck: company or business-group agreements "shall be filed with the Enforcement Authority for registration, publication and deposit" and "may be homologated at the request of a party" - homologation stops being the gate and becomes optional. Section 149 (amending Law 23,546) says who sits at the table: "In the case of company-level or regional bargaining, union representation shall be that of the first-tier union or unions or the company union". And section 137 starts a clock: the Labor Secretariat has one year from enactment to convene renegotiation of all expired agreements. Section 133, in the same title, caps the contributions an agreement may impose: 0.5% of payroll for what goes to employer chambers and 2% for what goes to worker associations. verif · Mar 6, 2026 ↗

In force since the law took effect (published in the Official Gazette on Mar 6, 2026). The section 137 deadline for the Labor Secretariat to convene renegotiation of expired agreements runs one year from promulgation, that is, until March 2027. verif · Mar 6, 2026 ↗

Any private employer whose staff falls under an industry-wide collective agreement, and in particular any company that wants to bargain its own agreement. On the union side it changes who bargains: in company-level bargaining, representation belongs to the first-tier or company union, not to the industry federation. verif · Mar 6, 2026 ↗