Fabio, it seems that an agreement has now been reached regarding salary increases for employees. For today's dr1 news summary:
"CONEP and unions finally agree
Labor Minister Jose Ramon Fadul managed to get representatives of CONEP (the national business council) and the labor unions to sit down and reach a consensus on the new wage agreements, particularly the part that provides for a 25% wage increase for those making less than RD$20,000 per month. The talks managed to overcome some of the legal stumbling blocks that had pushed CONEP to challenge the validity of Resolution 02-04 and the National Salaries Commission agreed to meet today at 10am to officially seal the deal. Minister Fadul mediated the conflict and as a result some of the language in Resolution 02-04 was modified, specifically the word homologar which means "homologate" or "ratify" in the legal context, which was changed to reconocer, which means "recognize as valid." Another change to the resolution was the classification of small, medium and large enterprises with regard to the application of the minimum wage laws. Elena Viyella de Paliza (CONEP), Virgilio Ortega Nadal (Employer's Confederation of the Dominican Republic) and William Robert Calderon (Confederation of Small and Medium Businesses) signed for the business community and Gabriel del Rio Done, Mariano Negron, Rafael Abreu and Eugenio Perez Cepeda on behalf of the unions. The minimum wage for a business with over RD$4.0 million in property or inventory will now be RD$6,400 per month. A monthly minimum wage of RD$4,400 is established for those commercial enterprises with between RD$2.0 and RD$4.0 million in capital, and for the smallest businesses, the ones with less than RD$2.0 million in capital including buildings and inventories, the minimum wage will be RD$3,900 per month.
Elena Viyella reiterated CONEP's support for the document and clarified that the 25% increase for those monthly salaries between the minimum wage and RD$20,000 will take into account any wage increases that were made during the year and adjusted accordingly."
As before, my questions are:
1. How does this apply to a condominium complex whose budget is dependent on assessing the owners?
2. How does it apply to maids, etc. Personally, I am most interested in knowing about part-time maids, but others will want to also know about full timers.
Fyi, the Condominium Declaration for the complex where I live states that "the total worth of the improvements and the property that makes up the Condominium is one million two hundred forty two thousand pesos de oro (RD$1,242,000.00). This worth represents a hundred percent (100%) of the price of the Condominium." (dtd 6 August 1986)
"CONEP and unions finally agree
Labor Minister Jose Ramon Fadul managed to get representatives of CONEP (the national business council) and the labor unions to sit down and reach a consensus on the new wage agreements, particularly the part that provides for a 25% wage increase for those making less than RD$20,000 per month. The talks managed to overcome some of the legal stumbling blocks that had pushed CONEP to challenge the validity of Resolution 02-04 and the National Salaries Commission agreed to meet today at 10am to officially seal the deal. Minister Fadul mediated the conflict and as a result some of the language in Resolution 02-04 was modified, specifically the word homologar which means "homologate" or "ratify" in the legal context, which was changed to reconocer, which means "recognize as valid." Another change to the resolution was the classification of small, medium and large enterprises with regard to the application of the minimum wage laws. Elena Viyella de Paliza (CONEP), Virgilio Ortega Nadal (Employer's Confederation of the Dominican Republic) and William Robert Calderon (Confederation of Small and Medium Businesses) signed for the business community and Gabriel del Rio Done, Mariano Negron, Rafael Abreu and Eugenio Perez Cepeda on behalf of the unions. The minimum wage for a business with over RD$4.0 million in property or inventory will now be RD$6,400 per month. A monthly minimum wage of RD$4,400 is established for those commercial enterprises with between RD$2.0 and RD$4.0 million in capital, and for the smallest businesses, the ones with less than RD$2.0 million in capital including buildings and inventories, the minimum wage will be RD$3,900 per month.
Elena Viyella reiterated CONEP's support for the document and clarified that the 25% increase for those monthly salaries between the minimum wage and RD$20,000 will take into account any wage increases that were made during the year and adjusted accordingly."
As before, my questions are:
1. How does this apply to a condominium complex whose budget is dependent on assessing the owners?
2. How does it apply to maids, etc. Personally, I am most interested in knowing about part-time maids, but others will want to also know about full timers.
Fyi, the Condominium Declaration for the complex where I live states that "the total worth of the improvements and the property that makes up the Condominium is one million two hundred forty two thousand pesos de oro (RD$1,242,000.00). This worth represents a hundred percent (100%) of the price of the Condominium." (dtd 6 August 1986)
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