The government filed a motion to request the Supreme Court overturn the suspension ordered by a judge of a large portion of the government’s labor reform, which was approved by Congress in early March.

The move, called a per saltum extraordinary motion, essentially means the government filed their request directly before the Supreme Court, skipping lower-ranked courts that should deal with the appeal before reaching the top instance.

On Friday, the Treasury’s Prosecution Office filed the appeal asking for the Supreme Court to review and overturn the decision of a labor judge who had left 83 of the reform’s 218 articles without effect on March 30, and for the suspension to be lifted until the High body makes a final decision on the issue.

The government argued that the judge who made the ruling did not have jurisdiction over the matter. They also said that it was not the judiciary’s role to intervene and that Argentina’s Labor........

© Buenos Aires Herald