Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The three sectors (workers, private and state) that are discussing the adjustment of the new minimum wage to resume negotiations this Thursday, said Benjamin Vazquez, deputy secretary of the Central General of Workers (CGT) and representative of the labor sector in the tripartite table.
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After three months of cessation of negotiations set at various roundtables on the end of 2020, the leading sectors arrived within their environments proposals to be presented at the negotiating meetings.
PROPOSALS FROM BOTH PARTIES
Vázquez said that the private sector already has a proposal for the new minimum wage that will be presented at the negotiating table. At the same time, he argued that the labor sector will defend its own proposal and exhaust the last instances of negotiation to benefit the sector, which includes millions of workers in the country.
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The delay in the negotiation deadlines has been regretted by the country’s leader and labor sector, as the expansion of the same has caused the minimum wage, which was set to begin in January 2021, will have to take effect in the next few months.
ECONOMY DOWN
Vázquez explained that the businessmen allege that their profits have been low, product of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic of the coronavirus that strikes Honduras and the world. To this was added the losses left by the passage of tropical storms Eta and Iota. The negotiation has not found a point of agreement due to exceptional drawbacks such as those mentioned.
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The tripartite board has convened a negotiating meeting this Friday in the Honduran capital. The Government of Honduras will mediate, as noted at the beginning of the agreement, the negotiations and propose an aid mechanism to both sectors, said representatives of the same.
However, if there is no agreement agreed by both parties, the State, through its representatives at the table, must establish the guidelines related to the new minimum wage.