Abstract

ADAMINI, Marina  and  FERNANDEZ MASSI, Mariana. Advancements and Challenges in Labor regarding the New Teleworking Law: an Analysis from the Political, Business and Union Actors Discourses. Opin. jurid. [online]. 2022, vol.21, n.45, e6.  Epub June 14, 2024. ISSN 1692-2530.  https://doi.org/10.22395/ojum.v21n45a6.

One of the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a rapid transfer of work tasks that were performed in person to teleworking. In this context, in Argentina, discussions about the need for specific regulations for teleworking were accelerated and a law that provides a general framework for this modality was approved to be applied once the quarantine ends. The objective of this article is to analyze the public debate around the teleworking law passed in the year 2020 considering three dimensions: workspace, working schedule and collective organization. With a qualitative approach, the study is based on the analysis of legal documents, speeches in the legislative sphere, and press articles, which reflect the voice of political, union and business actors. The results reveal that all the actors involved point out the need to adapt the legal system to the labor changes, although in different ways: while some of them warn about the risk of loss of labor rights, others highlight its potential to create better jobs, and others the need for state regulation to fight labor inequality.

Keywords : teleworkers; Argentina; workers; labor rights; COVID-19.

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