The Ministry of Laborthrough the National Salary Committee (CNS)approved a 26.1% increase in the minimum wage for workers of incorporated non-profit associations, which provide free health, education and rehabilitation services for people with disabilities and services to third parties.
The General Director of the CNS, Angel Martín Miesessubmitted the proposal, which was voted in favor by the representatives of the Government, the workers and the employer sector.
In this sense, Resolution number 01/2022 was issued, dated February 22 of the current year, which establishes the new salary scale for the sector.
With the approved increase, the workers of the NGOs of the aforementioned services who used to earn RD$11,500, will now earn RD$14,500 (26.1%).
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Resolution
The Resolution provides for the payment of the apprentice’s minimum wage, in accordance with the provisions of this rate, but calculating based on the hours of practical training carried out in the association where he provides his services.
In the same way, the worker who, at the time of approval of this minimum wage rate, enjoys a salary higher than that set by it, will continue to receive the same salary, in accordance with the provisions of Article 217 of the Work codenotwithstanding that said salary is improved by agreement between the parties.
The decision was derived from several tripartite meetings, in which representatives of employers and workers from the sector of incorporated non-profit associations participated, as part of the dialogue and agreement policy carried out in the management of the Minister of Labor, Luis Miguel De Camps García.
In that sense, the CNS decided to review the rate established by Resolution no. 06/2018, dated February twenty-second (22) of the year two thousand and eighteen (2018), which sets the minimum wage for workers who provide services in incorporated non-profit associations, dedicated to the provision of health services, education and rehabilitation of people with disabilities and services to third parties free of charge, throughout the national territory.
National Salary Committee
The CNS It is a permanent body, dependent on the Ministry of Labor, through which the parties involved know and review the minimum wage rates of the private sector and in the different branches of economic activities in the country.
During this administration, five historical increases have been applied to the minimum wage in different sectors.
An unprecedented salary increase corresponded to workers in the sugar sector with 101.8% for agricultural workers and 97% for administrative workers.
Workers in the tourism sector the minimum wage was increased by 23%, while for workers in the industrial free zone sector by 21% and 15.15% for Heavy Machinery Operators in the Construction Area.
Another significant increase corresponded to workers in the non-sectorized private sector, between 21% and 29% according to the classification of the companies.
