Argentina

Last update: 23/02/2022

1980
1985
2000
2007
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
1956
Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention (1952)
Discrimination Convention (Employment and Occupation) (1958)
1968
Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention (1981)
1988
Maternity Protection Convention (2000)
Domestic Workers Convention (2011)
2014
Violence and Harassment at work Convention (2019)
2021

  • Constitution of the Nation of Argentina (sanctioned in 1853 with the reforms of 1860, 1866, 1898 1957 and 1994) (15 December, 1994)

  • Law No. 20.744, Employment Contract Law (11 September, 1974)

  • Law No. 11.317, on the labour of women and children (30 September, 1924)

  • Law 20.744, Labour Contract Law (of 11 September 1974)

  • Resolution 54/2021 of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security. RESOL-2021-54-APN-MT (of 3 February 2021)

  • Law 27.555 on the Legal Framework governing Remote Work Contracts (of 30 July 2020)

  • Decree 27/2001 on the Legal Framework governing Remote Work Contracts (of 19 January 2021)

  • Law No. 20.744 on employment contracts (11 September, 1974)

  • Law No. 20.744, Employment Contract Law (of 11 September 1974)

  • Law No. 26.844, Special Employment Contract Regime for Domestic Workers in Private Households (of 13 March 2013)

  • Act No. 475/2021 DECNU-2021-475-APN-PTE - Law N° 24.241. Amendment (17 July, 2021)

  • Law No. 24.241, Integrated system of retirement and pensions (23 September, 1993)

  • Constitution of the Nation of Argentina. Passed into law in 1853 with amendments in 1860, 1866, 1898, 1957 and 1994, 15 December 1994.

  • Law 24144. Organic Charter of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. 23 September 1992.

  • Law 21526. Law on financial entities. 14 February 1977.

  • Law 25065. Law on credit cards. 7 December 1998.

  • Law 27275 on the right to access to public information. 29 September 2016.

  • Decree 206/2017. Regulations of the law on the right to access to public information. 27 March 2017.

  • Law 24240. Consumer protection. 22 September 1993.

  • Law 25326. Personal data protection. 4 October 2000.

  • Law 24467. Financing instruments for small and medium-sized enterprises and mutual guarantee societies. 15 March 1995.

  • Decree 699/2018. Implementing regulations of the law on financing instruments for small and medium-sized enterprises and mutual guarantee societies. 25 July 2018.

  • Law 27440. Law on productive financing. 11 May 2018.

  • Law 26117. Law on the promotion of microcredit for the development of the social economy. 17 July 2006.

  • Law 26994. National Civil and Commercial Code. 8 October 2014.

  • Decree 897/95. Approve the amended text of Decree-Law No. 15.348/46, ratified by Law No. 12.962 and amended by Decree-Law No. 6810/63.

  • Law 27349. Law on support for entrepreneurial capital. 29 March 2017.

  • Law 27506. Scheme for the promotion of the knowledge economy. 22 May 2019.

  • Law 20744. Law on Employment Contracts. 13 May 1976.

  • Law 26704. Remuneration in money owed to the worker, under schemes to which Law No. 20.744 is not applicable, may be paid by crediting an account opened in their name in a bank or official savings institution. 5 October 2011.

  • Presidential Decree 996/2018, which enacts the Argentine Digital Agenda, establishes gender digital inclusion as a line of action.

  • National Law 27570/2020 (amending Law 27506). Knowledge Economy Law.

  • Circular ONP No. 2/2024 (of 3 May 2024)

  • Law 26873 (of 5 August 2013)

  • Law 27452 (of 26 July 2018)

  • Law 27.580 approving the Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work —Convention 190— adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization (11 November 2020) (Annexe signed by legislative authorities of Convention 190)

  • Decree No. 993/2020, Promulgates Law 27.580 approving the Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work - Convention 190 (of 15 December 2020).

  • Law 26.485 on comprehensive protection to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women in the spheres in which they carry out their interpersonal relationships (of 11 March 2009)

  • Law 27.352 amending the criminal code with the aim of specifying the acts that constitute the crime of sexual abuse (26 April 2017).

  • Law 26.743 on the individual's right to gender identity (of 9 May 2012)

  • Law 20.744 on employment contracts (of 11 September 1974)

  • Decree No. 1011 (of 2010) implementing Law 26.485.

  • Law 27.533, amendment of Law 26.485 on Comprehensive Protection to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women (of 20 November 2019).

  • Law 23.592, measures for those who arbitrarily impede the full exercise of the fundamental rights and guarantees recognised in the National Constitution (of 3 August 1988).

  • Law 24.557 on occupational risks (of 13 September 1995)

  • Resolution No. 577/2021 of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security creating the Qualitas 190 Programme (22 September 2021).

  • Law 27.499 —Micaela’s Law— on mandatory training on gender and violence against women for all persons in the three branches of government (19 December 2018)

  • Resolution N° 24/2019 of the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers for the National Public Administration approving the ‘’Protocol for Action and Implementation of Leave for Gender Violence‘’ (of 18 January 2019) according to Law 14893/2017 of the province of Buenos Aires.

  • Resolution No. 5/2007 of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security establishing the Advisory Bureau on Workplace Violence and an Observatory on Workplace Violence (9 January 2007)

  • Resolution No. 930/2023 of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security on the establishment of the Federal Forum for the Eradication of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (of 14 July 2023)

  • Law 27. 452, "Ley Brisa" which creates the Financial Compensation Scheme for children and adolescents whose father and/or the partner of their mother has been prosecuted and/or convicted for committing, co-perpetrating, instigating or aiding and abetting the murder of their mother; or for cases in which criminal action against their father and/or the partner of their mother in the criminal case investigating the homicide of their mother has been declared extinguished by death; or in cases whereby either of their parents and/or the partners of their parents have died as a result of domestic and/or gender-based violence, (as of 4 July 2018).

  • Law 24.632 (of 13 March 1996) approving the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women —”Convention of Belem do Para”.

  • Law 23.179 (of 15 July 1985) of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women.

  • Decree N° 2385/1993 (of 23 November 1993): Incorporates the concept of sexual harassment in the National Public Administration.

  • Decree N° 214/2006 (of 27 February 2016): Collective Bargaining Agreement of the APN: the collective bargaining agreement establishes that any act of violence in the workplace is a serious misconduct that may be grounds for dismissal.

  • Joint Resolution No. 4/2020 (of 24 August 2020) of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversities, which approves the protocol for the 144 helpline to provide care, support and advice to women affected by gender-based violence.

  • Law 24.417 (of 7 December 1994) on protection against domestic violence and Regulatory Decree N° 235/1996

  • Decree No. 123 ( of 21 February 2021) establishing the Federal Council for the prevention and tackling of femicides, transvesticides and transfemicides within the scope of the Inter-Institutional Programme for a comprehensive approach to extreme gender-based violence.

  • Law 27.501 (of 16 April 2019) incorporates violence against women in public spaces into Article 6 of Law 26.485, on Comprehensive Protection to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women.

  • Decree N° 871/2018 (of 1 October 2018): Implementing regulations of Law No. 27.452, which creates the Financial Compensation Scheme for children and adolescents.

  • Resolution N° 1.197/2015 ( of 28 August 2015) bringing the collective bargaining agreement CCT-1464-2015-E into force

  • Constitution of the Nation of Argentina ( approved in 1853 with the amendments of 1860, 1866, 1898, 1957 and 1994) (of 15 December 1994) (Art. 14bis)

  • Law 26.364, on the prevention and punishment of human trafficking and assistance to its victims (of 9 April 2008)

  • Law 26.842, on the prevention and punishment of human trafficking and assistance to its victims (of 19 December 2012)

  • Law 27.234, establishing an awareness-raising day in the educational sphere to prevent and eradicate gender violence (26 November 2015).

  • Law 25.087 (of 14 April 1999) on crimes against sexual integrity. Amendment of the Criminal Code (1999)

  • Law 27.210 ( of 4 November 2015), establishing the Corps of Lawyers for Victims of Gender Violence, within the Secretariat for Justice of the National Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.

  • Law 26.390 (2008) prohibition of child labour and protection of protected adolescent labour (of 4 June 2008)

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