NewsWhore
06-27-2008, 02:50 PM
Chamber of Deputies President Julio Cesar Valentin has confirmed that Congress members have received a pay increase of RD$58,491 per Deputy since March. Deputies now receive a basic salary of RD$175,000. Including perks and incentives, each Deputy now makes RD$342,568 per month. Previous to the wage increase deputies made RD$116,000 per month. Valentin says that incentives for the Deputies stayed at the same level and that they must now pay income tax. Previously Deputies were discounted RD$43,973 for taxes. Valentin says that he was opposed to the wage increase because of the social inequalities in the DR. Hoy reports that before Valentin's admission Deputies had vehemently denied the wage increase.
In a page 2 editorial, Adriano Miguel Tejada of Diario Libre writes about how unfair the new raise is. He says that at a time that wages for teachers, firemen and workers in general are subject to severe budgetary wage constraints, it is "obscene" that the legislators can freely authorize their wage increases as they feel fit, without doing the same for the people they represent.
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In a page 2 editorial, Adriano Miguel Tejada of Diario Libre writes about how unfair the new raise is. He says that at a time that wages for teachers, firemen and workers in general are subject to severe budgetary wage constraints, it is "obscene" that the legislators can freely authorize their wage increases as they feel fit, without doing the same for the people they represent.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)