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05-18-2011, 04:30 PM
After a month of stalled talks on the minimum salaries, management returns today to sit down at the table with workers' representatives. The private sector is willing to up the offer but only in reference to the minimum wage. The president of the Dominican Management Confederations (Copardom), Jaime Gonzalez, reiterated this stance yesterday and seemed confident that a favorable agreement might be reached as a result of the meeting.
Copardom met yesterday afternoon to establish the percentage that management could offer, but Gonzalez said that it would be higher than the 11.58% that they offered at the previous meeting. The workers, represented by the CNUS, have kept to their position of a 25% increase to the minimum wage and an across-the-board 20% increase on all other salaries up to RD$50,000.
Diario Libre reports that Gonzalez said, nevertheless, that the express mandate of management is that the minimum wage should be increased, which, he said, has a spiraling effect on all the other salaries. "Each one has positions and each one will be discussed, in order to see how feasible they are and this is part of the negotiations and once we sit down at the table we can analyze which ones are the possible proposals", he said. He told reporters that before today's meeting, both management as well as the unions have been in constant communication with the Minister of Labor, Max Puig, who served as a mediator after the CNUS decided to leave the discussions, upset over the low management offer. The last wage review was in June 2009. Gonzalez seemed hopeful that with today's meeting it might be possible to achieve, besides finishing the issue of the wage increase, a renewal of the dialogue that for years has been stalemated with very different positions between management and the CNUS.
He implied that they might return to talk about the issue of social security, discuss the different types of salaries in the future, the salary levels, and also touch on the possibility of reviewing the salaries each year, as the CNUS has suggested. He said that there were also some points in the labor laws that, in his judgment make things difficult for labor and management. Today's meeting between labor and management, which together with the government make up the National Salaries Committee (CNS), is set for 10 this morning at the Ministry of Labor offices.
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Copardom met yesterday afternoon to establish the percentage that management could offer, but Gonzalez said that it would be higher than the 11.58% that they offered at the previous meeting. The workers, represented by the CNUS, have kept to their position of a 25% increase to the minimum wage and an across-the-board 20% increase on all other salaries up to RD$50,000.
Diario Libre reports that Gonzalez said, nevertheless, that the express mandate of management is that the minimum wage should be increased, which, he said, has a spiraling effect on all the other salaries. "Each one has positions and each one will be discussed, in order to see how feasible they are and this is part of the negotiations and once we sit down at the table we can analyze which ones are the possible proposals", he said. He told reporters that before today's meeting, both management as well as the unions have been in constant communication with the Minister of Labor, Max Puig, who served as a mediator after the CNUS decided to leave the discussions, upset over the low management offer. The last wage review was in June 2009. Gonzalez seemed hopeful that with today's meeting it might be possible to achieve, besides finishing the issue of the wage increase, a renewal of the dialogue that for years has been stalemated with very different positions between management and the CNUS.
He implied that they might return to talk about the issue of social security, discuss the different types of salaries in the future, the salary levels, and also touch on the possibility of reviewing the salaries each year, as the CNUS has suggested. He said that there were also some points in the labor laws that, in his judgment make things difficult for labor and management. Today's meeting between labor and management, which together with the government make up the National Salaries Committee (CNS), is set for 10 this morning at the Ministry of Labor offices.
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