Next Monday, the National Salary Committee, composed of the trade union sector, and the governmental wing to conclude the final percentage of the salary increase to the non -sectorized private sector.
Regarding the meeting, Rafael-Pepe Abreu, said that the businessman seeks to remove his proposed percentage of 20% raised by the president, Luis Abinader and 30 position on the table on the union part.
“They seek to place in their proposal a very distant percentage, of the two proposals on stage, because 8 for example is distant to 20 OA 30%,” said the leader of the working class in an interview in the program The alarm clock without.
They explained that they support their proposal in the average cost of the basic basket that is above 46 thousand pesos, according to a study conducted by the unions.
While businessmen flirted a percentage that would not reach more than eight percent.
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“We want to cushion the issue, not even the equipment to the basic basket, but the entrepreneurs do not go there the entrepreneurs what they say is that, that the quintiles do not consume the same”
“If the government sector is interested in increasing workers, it will do so by the proposal that suits the Dominican working class,” Abreu said regarding the salary increase.
25 % salary increase
On February 11, the study “Radiography of Labor and Salaries in the Dominican Republic 2024” was launched, carried out by the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the UASD and the Juan Bosch Foundation where it indicated that the salary is the mechanism par excellence for Improving entrance redistribution and if this does not fit taking into account productivity is business that stays with those profits.
Study researchers propose that the salary increase that is currently discussed in a tripartite manner in the National Salary Committee is generalized and that covers all not only those who earn the minimum.
Also that this increase is more than 25 % incorporating productivity and also that so that a single minimum wage should not be established not the 17 sectorized ones that exist.
Economists propose a 25% salary increase
