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The president of the Confederation of SMEs said that the Institute of Statistics and Registration of the Construction Industry reveals as historical data 500,000 jobs, of which in recent months nearly 80,000 have been lost, resulting in 420,000 in the first December days. Public works has lost nearly 80,000 jobs in recent months and registered a growth in the informal area because construction competes with social plans and employees do not want to access formality so as not to lose them, the president of the Confederation of Construction SMEs (CPC), Gerardo Fernández. In statements to AM 750 radio, Fernández said that the Institute of Statistics and Registration of the Construction Industry (Ieric) reports 500,000 jobs as historical data, of which in recent months nearly 80,000 have been lost. resulting in 420,000 in the first days of December. Likewise, he contemplated that those historical 500,000 have been considered a very important number but the same 500,000 have been there for 15 years, and there has been a population growth that means that in reality the real growth in employment has not been such. We are maintaining levels from 10 years ago, which means that if there is population growth, there is a growth in the informal area of ??construction work because it competes with social plans, and they do not want to access formality so as not to lose the plan. Fernández evaluated. In this sense, he calculated that there are two to three black jobs in the private sector because the public sector guarantees that they are all white: there would be 700,000 or 800,000 that are black in the private sector, he added. Asked about the projection of one and a half million people affected by the stoppage of public works, the head of CPC spoke of those called collaterals, and explained that if you destroy formal registered employment, this also impacts the providers. of services, assembly workers, corrales, sale of materials. All of this is being resented and in turn employment is decreasing in those sectors that are not direct from construction but are collateral, he explained. On the other hand, he praised the role of public works by highlighting that civilized countries that have had growth and engines of the economy have done so in a particular way with investment in it, and gave as an example the Marshall plan which was the reconstruction of post-war Europe and what gave the engine to the economy, he pointed out. Fernández also said that many times people confuse what public works is because there was a lot of talk about corruption, to which he emphasized: We are not all the same. «When we talk about a work of an SME, we talk about a school that brings education, a water network that brings health to a neighborhood, a border milestone or a route that brings communication to a population on the edge of the country. where sovereignty must be carried. Finally, in reference to the continuity of public works despite the intention of Javier Mileis government to stop and privatize it, the head of CPC recalled that the President and his entire team have said that there will be compliance with contracts. «Based on these statements, the contracts that are in force will be fulfilled; He has also said: Everything is within the law, nothing is outside, meaning that compliance with contracts is within the law, he noted. |
