by Balbuena Medina
SANTO DOMINGO Senator Adriano Sanchez Roa affirmed or the working class lost 56 % of the purchasing power it had in January 2000, despite the extraordinary growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), due to the incomprehensible i on of the business of labor is part of the production process.
The author of the proposed salary increase that discussed in the Senate said that day to each worker fell 98 cents to 571 pesos to purchase goods and services required minimum, so be í to be a real increase of 17 thousand 159 pesos a month, but the proposal the business sector in any case comes to a thousand pesos per worker.
Hence in the standing committee of the Senate Labor and Pensions Committee, headed by Senator José María Sosa, has yet to report the bill submitted by the representative of Elías Piña, which provides a wage increase of 30 % minimum wage and 25% of those accrued to 50 thousand dollars.
Sánchez Roa explained or that this increase wages barely increased to n RD $ 1,547.4 in small enterprises, ie RD $ 5,158.0 to RD $ 6,705.4; in medium-sized enterprises would be RD $ 1,746.0, rising to RD $ 7,566.00 RD $ 5,820.0, while in large companies the increase would be RD $ 2,539.5, and that wages would move to RD $ 8,465.0 $ 11,004.5 DR.
"As noted, we are not talking about a minimum wage increase was possible, or in subsequent wages to 50 thousand pesos a month, the is also a balanced increase, but the Committee does not include wages that are above the minimum ... so the law requires, "said Sen. Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).
occasion of the "Labour Day", Sánchez Roa recalled that circumscribe the pay rise which allows the National Committee of salary (CNS) is violation of Article 62 of the Constitution mandating equal pay for equal work, and yet l and 86% of workers, or unemployed, not receiving wages over 10 thousand 407 pesos, which is the lowest cost of living which records the Central Bank.
said the International Labour Organization (ILO) revealed or that the country has one of the lowest minimum wage purchasing power in Latin America and the Caribbean, s or comparable with the those of Bolivia, Guyana, Haiti, Mexico and Nicaragua, a situation unacceptable to the global markets and treaties that oblige competition based on quality and yield.
Roa Sanchez reiterated that supports the actions of the Central Autonomous Clasista Association (CASC), National Central of Dominican Workers (CNTD) and the National Confederation of Trade Union Unity (CNUS) because it is necessary to modernize the private sector in these times of globalized markets and treaties that oblige competition based on quality and yield.
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