Unions are still waiting for the National Salary Committee in order to discuss salary increases
CNUS says it will go before the TSA for it to order a summons to meet
Amílcar Nivar
SANTO DOMINGO. The president of the National Confederation of Syndicate Unity (CNUS), Rafael - Pepe - Abreu, reported yesterday that if the National Committee on Salaries (CNS) does not convene the representatives of the business sector in order to discuss a proposal for a salary increase of 30% which this entity deposited at the ministry of Labor, then they will go before the Superior Administrative Tribunal (TSA), in order to have them issue the call for a meeting.
The representative of the labor sector stressed that the Committee has still not issued the summons for the meeting, and that the only thing that it has done is avoid the issue, and say that the business sectors have not deposited their proposal, and that they do not answer the calls that have been made. But only when they show reporters a written invitation that they have sent to the business sector can one believe that this is true.
The Union leader, who noted that the current proposal for a salary increase was deposited at the CNS last 17 July 2014, said that the last resolution which authorized a salary increase of 14% in July 2013 made it clear that salary should be revised once again at the end of a year, so that he does not understand why the official agency doesn't issue the summons for a meeting.
However "we see that the Committee is being passive, it does not take the step to issue the call, so we approached that Committee again last week, and there we left other documentation in which we let them know that their obligation as the Committee is to convene the parties if one of the parties requests the meeting," he pointed out.
In the meantime, the President of the Dominican Management Confederation (Copardom), Jaime Gonzalez, said that the businessmen are still recovering from the salary increase that they gave last year and that therefore it is not the time to speak of a new salary increase.
"We respect the Law, the law says that the salaries will be discussed once every two years, and that given an eventuality which might occur in the country, such as occurred in 2003, where there was a 56% inflation rate, it is possible to issue a call by one of the parties to discuss a new salary agreement as soon as a year is up," said the businessman.
"I think that the country has had a clear stability over the last months, and that inflation has not gone beyond 3%, so we understand that right now to speak of a new salary proposal is not right. Right now we are too far ahead of a salary discussion," stressed González, after assuring reporters that the law is very clear on this aspect.
Minimum salaries since July 2013
The highest minimum salary in the Dominican Republic is RD $11,292 and the unions once this to be raised to RD $14,767.13; the median salary is RD $7763; and with the new increase proposed by the CNUS it would reach RD $10,188.38 and the third minimum level is RD $6880 and with the request by the unions would reach a level of RD $8970.42.
All of these salaries have been in place since July 2013 when they received a 14% increase.
The representative of the labor sector stressed that the Committee has still not issued the summons for the meeting, and that the only thing that it has done is avoid the issue, and say that the business sectors have not deposited their proposal, and that they do not answer the calls that have been made. But only when they show reporters a written invitation that they have sent to the business sector can one believe that this is true.
The Union leader, who noted that the current proposal for a salary increase was deposited at the CNS last 17 July 2014, said that the last resolution which authorized a salary increase of 14% in July 2013 made it clear that salary should be revised once again at the end of a year, so that he does not understand why the official agency doesn't issue the summons for a meeting.
However "we see that the Committee is being passive, it does not take the step to issue the call, so we approached that Committee again last week, and there we left other documentation in which we let them know that their obligation as the Committee is to convene the parties if one of the parties requests the meeting," he pointed out.
In the meantime, the President of the Dominican Management Confederation (Copardom), Jaime Gonzalez, said that the businessmen are still recovering from the salary increase that they gave last year and that therefore it is not the time to speak of a new salary increase.
"We respect the Law, the law says that the salaries will be discussed once every two years, and that given an eventuality which might occur in the country, such as occurred in 2003, where there was a 56% inflation rate, it is possible to issue a call by one of the parties to discuss a new salary agreement as soon as a year is up," said the businessman.
"I think that the country has had a clear stability over the last months, and that inflation has not gone beyond 3%, so we understand that right now to speak of a new salary proposal is not right. Right now we are too far ahead of a salary discussion," stressed González, after assuring reporters that the law is very clear on this aspect.
Minimum salaries since July 2013
The highest minimum salary in the Dominican Republic is RD $11,292 and the unions once this to be raised to RD $14,767.13; the median salary is RD $7763; and with the new increase proposed by the CNUS it would reach RD $10,188.38 and the third minimum level is RD $6880 and with the request by the unions would reach a level of RD $8970.42.
All of these salaries have been in place since July 2013 when they received a 14% increase.
Amílcar Nivar
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