Government convenes CNS

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The government has convened the National Committee on Salaries (CNS) to discuss the latest wage proposals coming from the tripartite conversations carried out over the past week and a half. The meeting will take place at the Ministry of Labor. The committee has the authority to increase minimum wage standards, even without the consent of labor or management. The National Council of Union Solidarity (CNUS) announced that it will send representatives to the meeting and then visit the National Congress to tell the legislators just what is facing the working class. The management spokespersons told Diario Libre reporters that they would be holding a press conference today in order to explain their position and the reasoning behind their proposals. Mediator Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado greeted the intervention of the CNS as a sign that workers would get a salary increase. Talks so far for a wage increase are at a standstill because labor maintains its insistence in a 25% increase for all those who make up to RD$30,000 a month, and business sector has accepted a 15% increase but of minimum wages only.

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