# Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (Argentina)

The Secretariat of Labour, Employment and Social Security (Spanish: Secretaría de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social) is a secreariat of the Argentine Government tasked with overseeing the country's public policies on labour conditions, employment and social security. Until 2023, it was a ministry.
It proposes, designs, elaborates, administers and supervises the policies in all that is inherent to the relations and individual and collective conditions of work, to the legal regime of collective bargaining and of the professional associations of workers and employers, to employment, job training and social security. In addition, it was informally tasked with overseeing the government's relationship with Argentina's trade unions.

## History

It was founded in 1943 by Decree-Law No. 15,074 as the Secretariat of Labour and Prevision (STYP), assuming the functions of the former National Department of Labor, but also incorporating different agencies that previously functioned in various government agencies, such as the National Retirement and Pension Fund, the National Directorate of Public Health and Social Assistance, the National Board for Combat Unemployment, and the Rental Chamber, among others. The secretariat was then elevated to ministerial level in the first cabinet of President Juan Perón; the first minister was José María Freire.
Its function was to centralize all the social action of the State and supervise compliance with labor laws, for which it had regional delegations throughout the country.5​ The services and powers of a conciliatory and conciliatory nature were also transferred to the Secretariat. arbitration, as well as the functions of labor police, industrial hygiene services, inspection of mutual associations and those related to maritime, river and port work. At the same time, the labor departments, directorates or offices and the existing organizations and services in the provinces were converted into regional Labor and Welfare delegations.
It was briefly disestablished during the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía, being restored during the third and last presidency of Perón in 1973. It was also demoted to a secretariat for a short period during the presidency of Mauricio Macri, from 2018 to 2019.
The ministry was dissolved on December 10, 2023 following a presidential decree from President Javier Milei, and incorporated as a secretariat supervised by the Ministry of Human Capital. Omar Yasín was appointed as secretary.

## List of ministers

| No | Minister | Party | Term | President |
| Ministry of Labour and Prevision (1949–1958) |||||||
| 1 | José María Freire | Peronist Party | 7 June 1949 – 6 April 1953 | Juan Perón |
| 2 | Alejandro Giavarini | Peronist Party | 6 April 1953 – 21 September 1955 | Juan Perón |
| 3 | Luis Cerruti Costa | Independent | 21 September 1955 – 14 November 1955 | Eduardo Lonardi |
| 4 | Raúl Carlos Migone | Independent | 14 November 1955 – 21 September 1956 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu |
| 5 | Horacio Aguirre Legarreta | National Democratic Party | 26 September 1956 – 16 November 1956 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu |
| 6 | Alberto Mercier | Independent | 17 November 1956 – 29 January 1957 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu |
| 7 | Tristán Guevara | Democratic Progressive Party | 30 January 1957 – 30 April 1958 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu |
| Ministry of Labour and Social Security (1958–1966) |||||||
| 8 | Alfredo Allende | Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 18 June 1958 – 11 February 1959 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 9 | David Bléjer | Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 11 February 1959 – 30 December 1960 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 10 | Guillermo Acuña Anzorena | Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 30 December 1960 – 30 June 1961 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 11 | Ismael Bruno Quijano | Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 30 June 1961 – 26 March 1962 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 12 | Oscar Puiggrós | Christian Democratic Party | 27 March 1962 – 29 April 1962 | José María Guido |
| 13 | Galileo Puente | Independent | 29 April 1962 – 28 February 1963 | José María Guido |
| 14 | Alberto Rodríguez Galán | Independent | 28 February 1963 – 11 March 1963 | José María Guido |
| 15 | Rodolfo Martelli | Independent | 12 March 1963 – 14 May 1963 | José María Guido |
| 16 | Bernardo Bas | Independent | 15 May 1963 – 11 October 1963 | José María Guido |
| 17 | Fernando Solá | Radical Civic Union | 12 October 1963 – 28 June 1966 | Arturo Illia |
| Ministry of Labour (1971–1989) |||||||
| 18 | Rubens San Sebastián | Independent | 30 May 1971 – 25 March 1973 | Alejandro Lanusse |
| 19 | Ricardo Otero | Justicialist Party | 25 March 1973 – 12 October 1973 | Héctor Cámpora |
| 19 | Ricardo Otero | Justicialist Party | 12 October 1973 – 1 July 1974 | Juan Perón |
| 19 | Ricardo Otero | Justicialist Party | 1 July 1974 – 29 June 1975 | Isabel Perón |
| 20 | Cecilio Conditi | Justicialist Party | 29 June 1975 – 11 August 1975 | Isabel Perón |
| 21 | Carlos Ruckauf | Justicialist Party | 11 August 1975 – 3 February 1976 | Isabel Perón |
| 22 | Miguel Unamuno | Justicialist Party | 3 February 1976 – 24 March 1976 | Isabel Perón |
| 23 | Horacio Tomás Liendo | Independent (Military) | 29 March 1976 – 8 February 1979 | Jorge Rafael Videla |
| 24 | Llamil Reston | Independent (Military) | 8 February 1979 – 29 March 1981 | Jorge Rafael Videla |
| 25 | Julio Porcile | Independent (Military) | 29 March 1981 – 2 July 1982 | Roberto Viola |
| 25 | Julio Porcile | Independent (Military) | 29 March 1981 – 2 July 1982 | Carlos Lacoste |
| 25 | Julio Porcile | Independent (Military) | 29 March 1981 – 2 July 1982 | Leopoldo Galtieri |
| 25 | Julio Porcile | Independent (Military) | 29 March 1981 – 2 July 1982 | Alfredo Saint-Jean |
| 26 | Héctor Villaveirán | Independent | 2 July 1982 – 10 December 1983 | Reynaldo Bignone |
| 27 | Antonio Mucci | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1983 – 24 April 1984 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 28 | Juan Manuel Casella | Radical Civic Union | 24 April 1984 – 31 October 1984 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 29 | Hugo Barrionuevo | Justicialist Party | 31 October 1984 – 27 March 1987 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 30 | Carlos Alderete | Justicialist Party | 27 March 1987 – 16 September 1987 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 31 | Ideler Tonelli | Radical Civic Union | 16 September 1987 – 7 July 1989 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| Ministry of Labour and Social Security (1989–1999) |||||||
| 32 | Jorge Alberto Triaca | Justicialist Party | 8 July 1989 – 16 January 1992 | Carlos Menem |
| 33 | Rodolfo Díaz | Justicialist Party | 16 January 1992 – 4 December 1992 | Carlos Menem |
| 34 | Enrique Rodríguez | Justicialist Party | 4 December 1992 – 22 December 1993 | Carlos Menem |
| 35 | Armando Caro Figueroa | Justicialist Party | 22 December 1993 – 5 December 1997 | Carlos Menem |
| 36 | Antonio Erman González | Christian Democratic Party | 5 December 1997 – 26 May 1999 | Carlos Menem |
| 37 | José Alberto Uriburu | Independent | 26 May 1999 – 10 December 1999 | Carlos Menem |
| Ministry of Labour, Employment and Human Resources (2001–2002) |||||||
| 38 | Alberto Flamarique | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1999 – 6 October 2000 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| 39 | Patricia Bullrich | New Leadership | 6 October 2000 – 29 October 2001 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| 40 | José Gabriel Dumón | Radical Civic Union | 29 October 2001 – 21 December 2001 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| 41 | Oraldo Britos | Justicialist Party | 23 December 2001 – 30 December 2001 | Adolfo Rodríguez Saá |
| Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (2002–2018) |||||||
| 42 | Alfredo Atanasof | Justicialist Party | 3 January 2002 – 3 May 2002 | Eduardo Duhalde |
| 43 | Graciela Camaño | Justicialist Party | 3 May 2002 – 25 May 2003 | Eduardo Duhalde |
| 44 | Carlos Tomada | Justicialist Party | 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2015 | Néstor Kirchner |
| 44 | Carlos Tomada | Justicialist Party | 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2015 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| 45 | Jorge Triaca Jr. | Republican Proposal | 10 December 2015 – 5 September 2018 | Mauricio Macri |
| Ministry of Production and Labour (2018–2019) |||||||
| 46 | Dante Sica | Independent | 5 September 2018 – 10 December 2019 | Mauricio Macri |
| Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (2019–2023) |||||||
| 47 | Claudio Moroni | Justicialist Party | 10 December 2019 – 13 October 2022 | Alberto Fernández |
| 48 | Kelly Olmos | Justicialist Party | 13 October 2022 – 10 December 2023 | Alberto Fernández |
| 49 | Omar Yasín | | 10 Dec 2023–present |