In force since Jun 1, 2026
One registration only: ARCA, and IERIC cannot ask for more
Ley 27.802, section 155 (Title XIX)
in forceNATIONALApplies the same nationwide
Labor
Derives from: The comprehensive labor reform is now law
What section 155 says, which IERIC obligation is void, and what still stands for whoever contracts construction 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
Employers register their workers with ARCA (Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero) «in accordance with the rules that body issues, such registration being deemed full and sufficient for all legal purposes». And the second paragraph closes it with no margin: «Once registration with ARCA is evidenced, all requirements demanded of employers regarding worker registration shall be deemed fulfilled». The part that changes a construction firm's day is named explicitly: the Instituto de Estadística y Registro de la Industria de la Construcción (IERIC) «shall adapt its systems and internal rules to this law, recognising as valid and sufficient the registration requirements established by ARCA, it being prohibited for that Institute — or any other authority — to require, serve notice on or condition employers or workers on compliance with registration requirements additional to or different from those established by the competent national authority». The prohibition is not for IERIC alone: it says «or any other authority», and that reaches a municipality or a provincial body demanding a registry of its own.And the same rule is written twice more in the law, in two different places, so that there is no doubt as to whom it reaches. In s. 52 of the Ley de Contrato de Trabajo itself (replaced by s. 20 of the law): employers register with ARCA «in accordance with the rules that body issues», and «this registration shall be sufficient for all purposes, and no additional requirements may be demanded by any other authority»; the same section requires pre-existing books to be kept for ten years and allows them to be digitised with the same legal validity as paper. And in Title VIII, which rewrites the Small and Medium Enterprise regime: s. 84 of Ley 24.467 (by s. 103) now reads — SMEs «shall only be required to register workers by enrolling them in the systems that the Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero (ARCA)… provides for that purpose, without their being required, for these purposes, to complete any additional formality before any other national, provincial or municipal authority», and that enrolment suffices to comply with s. 7 of Ley 24.013 «without further demands being made». Section 85 (by s. 104) instructs ARCA to set up a Single Personnel Registry for the workers of those firms. And s. 209 of the law repeals ss. 86 and 87 of Ley 24.467, which were the old Single Personnel Registry for SMEs: s. 86 merged books and payroll sheets into it, and s. 87 listed the data to be entered (employer, worker, CUIL, address, family dependants, start date, job, type of contract and place of work). verif Mar 6, 2026 ↗
In force
In force with the law, from 6 March 2026. Registration is whatever ARCA provides, and Decreto 407/2026 (Official Gazette, 1 Jun 2026) has already set the framework for construction: hiring, termination and changes for workers under Ley 22.250 are filed with ARCA (s. 17), the valid record is the one in ARCA's systems (s. 18) and labour registration is removed from IERIC's powers (s. 20). ARCA has 120 days to adapt its systems and its information exchange with IERIC, which until then acts as a transitional channel for receiving and forwarding filings (s. 21). The decree does not say whether those are business days or calendar days. verif Jun 1, 2026 ↗
Who it applies to
To every construction company, and particularly to one going to work on a site in another province. Construction was the only industry still carrying its own national registry on top of social security, and with it its own counter, deadlines and notices. This section reduces it to one. For an SME qualifying as a supplier to a large project the effect is concrete and measurable: one procedure fewer per worker and per site, and a notice that can no longer arrive. It also reaches the construction worker, who no longer has to evidence registration in two places to be taken on. And IERIC itself, which continues to exist with its statistics and industry-registry functions, but cannot impose conditions through worker registration. verif Mar 6, 2026 ↗
The norm
Ley 27.802 on labour modernisation, Title XIX, section 155 — the title's only section. Enacted on 27 Feb 2026, promulgated by Decreto 137/2026 and published in the Boletín Oficial on 6 Mar 2026. verif Mar 6, 2026 ↗
Our reading
thesis The law chose a technique here that is worth looking at, because it explains why the section works: it did not repeal IERIC's registry, it barred it from demanding it. Repealing it would have opened a debate about the whole construction regime; barring the demand solves the employer's problem without touching Ley 22.250. ⇒ For the works supplier the effect adds to that of section 129 and both point the same way: making it cheaper to bring your own crew to a distant site. One removes the local-list filter, the other removes the parallel registry. It is R10 in its most literal form — the demand for works already exists; what changes is the cost of meeting it. What could break this reading: the procedure that really weighs not being registration but the rest of the construction regime — the Severance Fund, the record book, the site permit — which this section does not touch. And ARCA not yet having issued the rules the section itself refers to. And there is a new piece that reinforces this reading, found on 2 September 2026: the ban on demanding parallel registries is not only in the IERIC section. It appears three times — in s. 52 of the Employment Contract Act («any other authority»), in s. 84 of the SME law («any national, provincial or municipal authority») and in the IERIC section. Writing the same rule three times, across three different regimes, is a drafting decision that says something: the legislator expected resistance from bodies that could argue their special regime was not covered. ⇒ For an SME supplier operating across several provinces, the practical consequence is that the provincial or municipal employers' registry is no longer enforceable against it, whatever the jurisdiction. With the same caveat as above, which now weighs more: all of this refers to rules ARCA must issue, and the Single Personnel Registry of s. 85 is a system ARCA has to build. That the law orders it does not prove it already exists. thesis
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