The former Minister of Labor and Secretary of Labor Affairs of the Dominican Liberation Partya (PLD), Maritza Hernández, considers necessary in the current circumstances a general increase in wages that includes the different national sectors.
“The salary increase must be general to public and private employees, including pensioners, because the inflation of these two years has been one of the highest that we Dominicans have experienced,” said the also member of the Central Committee and candidate for the PLD presidential candidacy.
He clarified that this means that the ministry is the backbone of labor peace and has to have a mission of connection, but not interference.
“Precisely, sometimes, it strikes me how officials want to usurp the functions of committees on issues that are below it for only seeking populism and that is worrying,” explained the PLD leader when participating in the program Today La Super 7 and refer to statements by the current Minister of Labor.
He added that at the time there will be labor issues that will have to be discussed with all sectors: “I want to make a recommendation to the Minister of Labor at this time in which he sends letters to the productive sectors of national life to discuss the issue of salary increase. Please be advised, “he assured.
He stated that the one who has to elucidate this point with the different sectors is the National Salary Committee, which is the specialized structure to elucidate this aspect.
“The Minister of Labor should not call the sectors, he calls them the National Salary Committee because it is what gives him the legal focus and he is a qualified person and everything else and sometimes you have to leave a little because he is the authority superior if there were an impasse in the acceptance of one of the parties of that salary increase and when you must be a judge and a party, you cannot be a party if you are going to be a judge, that is, you are going to have the appeal, in a few words for those who don’t understand it,” he said.
The salary issue is in the debate based on the position of the National Council of Private Enterprise that suggests the employer sector make a voluntary salary adjustment, taking into account the levels of inflation experienced in the country during the last year.
