At least in Argentina, where I live, the aguinaldo is a plus employees cash twice a year, in July and December; it’s half the best salary the worker got payed in the semester. For example: let’s say somone gets payed 1000 a month, and he sometimes works overhours. In February he worked a lot of overhours, and he got payed 1200 at the end of the month, while the rest of the months he got his 1000, or a bit more, but less than 1200. His aguinaldo will be 600, and it will be payed to him in July.
The concept was introduced by President Juan Domingo Perón (btw, ‘Domingo’ is spanish for ‘Sunday’, and an out of use but still accepted male name. Dominga is the female), in the late nineteen forties as part of a set of benefits for employees. It made him really popoular and loved by a lot of people, and hated by a lot of other people too.
But I would never have guessed it made someone so happy as to name three generations after this benefit…
Thank you for sharing this worderfull work with us!!
-Perla
(yeah, it’s spanish for peral. My parents had apparently great expectations for me.)
At least in Argentina, where I live, the aguinaldo is a plus employees cash twice a year, in July and December; it’s half the best salary the worker got payed in the semester. For example: let’s say somone gets payed 1000 a month, and he sometimes works overhours. In February he worked a lot of overhours, and he got payed 1200 at the end of the month, while the rest of the months he got his 1000, or a bit more, but less than 1200. His aguinaldo will be 600, and it will be payed to him in July.
The concept was introduced by President Juan Domingo Perón (btw, ‘Domingo’ is spanish for ‘Sunday’, and an out of use but still accepted male name. Dominga is the female), in the late nineteen forties as part of a set of benefits for employees. It made him really popoular and loved by a lot of people, and hated by a lot of other people too.
But I would never have guessed it made someone so happy as to name three generations after this benefit…
Thank you for sharing this worderfull work with us!!
-Perla
(yeah, it’s spanish for peral. My parents had apparently great expectations for me.)