Workers raises

[NewsWhore]

51% of Dominican businesses gave their workers wage increases between November 2007 and March 2008. On average the increases were about 12%. There were some increases as high as 95% and as low as 1.5%. In comparison to the 2006-2007 period this increase is 6% lower when 57.9% of companies gave their workers raises. Reasons for the increases include, but not limited to, longevity, merit, inflation wage readjustments and quality of work. Also, 73% of businesses say they plan to give workers wage increases while 27% say they have no plans of increases wages. The findings are including in the Ros Consultants annual study.

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