NewsWhore
05-25-2011, 03:30 PM
The business and management sector has launched a tripartite social dialogue with the representatives of the labor and government sectors. The president of the National Business Council (CONEP) is calling on the business sector to increase salaries above the minimum wage. The suggestion made by Conep president Manuel Diez Cabral, got the immediate backing of Labor Minister Max Puig and union spokesman Rafael (Pepe) Abreu. The Conep president said that although the National Salaries Committee is only authorized to rule on minimum wages, as a private business and as Conep, "I call upon the private sector not to forget about an increase of the salaries beyond the minimum wage".
He said that although "we are experiencing a difficult situation at a global level, not just in the country, with a continuing increase in the price of commodities and the price of oil, it was suggested to the private sector to go beyond the minimum wage, which they felt would be to the benefit of all the Dominican Republic."
Commenting on whether or not the increase in the minimum wage would be eaten up by inflation and what to do about this aspect, Diez Cabral said that the only answer was for companies to become more productive, as the country cannot control price increases in raw materials on the world market.
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He said that although "we are experiencing a difficult situation at a global level, not just in the country, with a continuing increase in the price of commodities and the price of oil, it was suggested to the private sector to go beyond the minimum wage, which they felt would be to the benefit of all the Dominican Republic."
Commenting on whether or not the increase in the minimum wage would be eaten up by inflation and what to do about this aspect, Diez Cabral said that the only answer was for companies to become more productive, as the country cannot control price increases in raw materials on the world market.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)