Sunday, 03/19/2023
A 15-hour session of the Supreme Labor Council, the body responsible for determining the minimum wage, ended without reaching a final agreement Saturday, leaving millions of workers in doubt of their future.
The government has already decided to give its employees both in the administrative bureaucracy and its business enterprises a mere 20-percent raise when annual inflation tops 50 percent.
The government’s administrative bureaucracy, including education but not the armed forces employs around 2.5 million people.
Workers say due to the high cost of living and economic problems, they cannot agree with the government’s current proposals, which barely allow them to survive. read more