Argentine Rural Workers' Day

Rural Workers' Day was historically instituted to commemorate the sanctioning of the first Statute of the Farm Laborer on October 8, 1944, by decree 28,169 of the de facto government presided by General Edelmiro Farrell, whose Secretary of Labor was Juan Domingo Perón.

Said Statute represented a great advance for that time. Among other aspects, the statute established measures in defense of the peon's salary and the worker's stability, payment in national currency, the illegality of deductions or withholdings, minimum wages, mandatory breaks, lodging in minimum hygienic conditions, good food, provision of work clothes, medical-pharmaceutical assistance and paid vacations.

The statute was later repealed by another military government, reinstated in 1974 and repealed again by the "national reorganization process" (1976-1983), to be reinstated and updated in 2004. In 2011 the new statute was enacted by Law 26727.