Producers met with the regional director of ANSES to ratify a new system that ensures continuity in the collection of the allowances granted by the national body. Thus addressing a historical demand of the sector.
On Monday afternoon, the regional director of ANSES, Sebastian Mastropaolo, visited the headquarters of the Association of Producers of Blueberries from Argentina's Mesopotamia (Apama) in Concordia, to clarify the doubts and queries that producers had regarding the modification, implemented this year, which ensures continuity in the collection of family allowances. Until last season, workers had bumps between harvest and harvest.
According to Mastropaolo, that deficit was corrected and the new system will allow a continuity in the collection of the money. This will now be unified in Family Allowances throughout the year, for all the workers involved in the harvest who have a reserved position status throughout the year, ensuring that they will have a job year after year. According to the ANSES, this would have other benefits, as the workers would also become eligible for school aid if they were paid a Family Allowance throughout the year.
The head of ANSES to visit Concordia
Mastropaolo said that a delegation of the ANSES, headed by agency boss, Emilio Bsavilbaso, will visit the city next week and present a workshop on this and other issues to the central players in the productive sector of the region.
2016 harvest
Meanwhile, the president of Apama, Omar Chiarello, said that they had good prospects of achieving a high level of recruitment of workers from Concordia for this year's harvest, which had already started. "We expect that nearly 80% of the workers will come from Concordia and its surrounding areas."
Patricia Rodriguez, head of a local unit of ANSES, the local authorities of Apama and their legal adviser, Jorge Sosa, also participated in the meeting. Some financial advisors of different blueberry companies also attended the meeting to learn about the change in the system.