New Green Employment Program

By means of Resolution No. 82/2023, published in the Official Gazette on February 23, 2023, the Argentine Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security created the Green Employment Program for promoting the growth of green employment, favoring economic activities more careful in the use of natural resources and environmental impact, and accompanying workers and productive units in the transition towards a fairer society in social, economic, and environmental terms.

 

“Green employment" is considered to be that which meets decent or dignified work standards, and which also contributes to preserving and restoring natural resources, the environment, and/or biodiversity in both traditional and emerging sectors.

 

The Program aims, among others, at:

 

1. Identifying strategic opportunities at sectoral and territorial levels for promoting and creating green jobs.

 

2. Promoting the registration of workers and productive units carrying out environmentally-sustainable activities.

 

3. Encouraging the movement of workers and companies towards green-activity sectors according to the final product or work process.

 

4. Developing positive actions against all forms of discrimination in the work environment under an intersectional approach that considers the characteristics of workers in vulnerable situations and at risk of exclusion from the labor market.

 

The Program will be focused on salaried workers –independent or self-managed productive units, individually or associatively– and unemployed workers, and will promote the participation of companies –prioritizing micro, small and medium businesses– that carry out environmentally sustainable productive processes, as well as civil society organizations and national, provincial, and municipal public authorities developing actions to address environmental issues.

 

The Program will be implemented in a transversal, articulated, and integrated manner together with other employment and professional training plans, programs, and actions implemented by the Ministry of Labor, as well as by other national, provincial, or municipal public authorities or civil society organizations.

 

The Secretariat of Employment, under the Ministry of Labor, is appointed as the enforcement authority of the Program.