Dina Boluarte’s regime seeks to revive the Chlimper law

At the end of the Alberto Fujimori regime, the agrarian promotion law (law 27360) was established in order to empower the agro-exporters from the reduction of their tax obligations.

This regulation—popularized as the Chlimper law, because it was promoted by Joseph Chlimperthe then head of Minagri—was born as a temporary measure, but was extended until 2020.

At the end of the first year of the pandemic, workers in the sector, tired of receiving minuscule payments – while companies diametrically experienced a boom – They protested to demand better wages and benefits such as vacations and CTS, among others..

After the demonstrations—in which police repression caused the death of three compatriots, including a minor—its repeal was achieved following the will of Congress and the transitional government of Francisco Sagasti.

With the new law, the participation of workers was also established at 5% of profits and, by 2027, it would rise to 10%, in addition to forcing corporations to stop paying 15% of the Income tax and be coupled, in 2028, to the 29.5% rate paid by the rest.

Arista is clear: it was a mistake to repeal it

The Minister of Economy and Finance, José Arista, assured that the end of the Chlimper law was a mistake, to the point of ensuring that “something that was working well was killed.”

“We are going to go back and we are going to try to put it back into the hands of the Congress the legislation we had (the agricultural law),” he said in Special Digital Edition, in addition to recognizing that his intention is to “reduce labor rigidity.”

It is worth noting that The new law on the agricultural labor regime ended the 4% rate that companies paid for two decades, and established a gradual increase of up to 9% by 2025, although, at the close of the 2023 legislature, Congress opted to take it to 6% from this year until 2028.

Although this regulatory change received the support of 86 parliamentarians, Carlos Anderson (not grouped) warned that it was classified as “contraband”, since it provides benefits to agriculture within a project related to textiles and clothing.

Already before its approval, the former Minister of Economy Alex Contreras He said at CADE that the end of the Chlimper law was “disastrous.”

They do not recognize the fatigue of workers

Christian Sánchez, former Minister of Labor, questions Arista’s statements, since he does not recognize recent history or the fatigue of workers who fought to escape precariousness and receive better salaries.

“It would be very serious. It would be reliving a conflict. What is labor rigidity? We are getting used to high officials throwing ready-made words without any content. Present to the National Labor Council why the regime is rigid and what it consists of. So there must be debate. Politically, it is serious that he does not know the spaces for social dialogue,” he commented to La República.

Sánchez remembers that 100% of the workers in the agro-export activity are temporary, and it is a mistake to claim that there are locks. He also criticizes the fact that these companies are rewarded by removing the responsibility of assuming 9% like the rest of the companies and, on the contrary, passing this responsibility on to the rest of the contributors.

“Is 6% rigid? How much do you want them to pay to social security, 0%? “It is an empty speech,” she said.

The complicit silence of Fujimorism

In mid-December 2020, when the social outbreak fought to change the Chlimper law, Congress approved its repeal with 114 votes. Two congressmen were against—the veteran Fujimori Martha Chavez, one of them—and seven abstained: Rita Ayasta, Diethell Columbus, Carlos Mesía, Marcos Pichilingue, Erwin Tito, Gilmer Trujillo and Valeria Valer, all from the Fuerza Popular bench. From there the reform that Sagasti promulgated was worked on.