Christmas bonus 2023: What is the deadline for companies to pay it?

With the arrival of the month of June and the inflation that affects their pockets, workers in a dependency relationship, retirees and pensioners anxiously await the time to collect the first installment of the Complementary Annual Salary (SAC)the half bonus of this 2023, and within this framework, doubts always arise regarding the term that companies have to comply with that obligation.

According to Law 27,073, which in 2015 modified article 122 of the Labor Contract Law, that first installment of the SAC You can pay until June 30. This year, that date falls on a Friday, and it then becomes the limit in which both active workers, as well as retirees and pensioners, may already have that money in their bank accounts.

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He import pay each semester It will be settled based on the calculation of 50% of the highest monthly remuneration accrued for all concepts within the two semesters ending in the months of June and December of each year.

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“In order to determine the second supplementary annual salary installment, the worker must estimate the salary corresponding to the month of December. If said estimate does not coincide with the salary actually earned, the annual salary installment will be recalculated”, the supplement details the rule regarding the payment of the second half of the Christmas bonus.

For that second part of the bonus, which is collected at the end of the year, that same law states that the payment must be made until December 18. In this case, the objective is that families have money available to be able to face the purchases that the Holidays demand.

And he adds: “The difference, which will result between the accrued fee and the fee paid on December 18, will be integrated into the salary for the month of December.” If during the semester the subject did not work every month (either because he started working recently or because the contract expired), you have to pay proportional to the months worked.