Power rates increases put on hold; Listin Diario reports on major wage increases at the Superintendency of Electricity

[Dolores]

President Luis Abinader ordered a freeze on the increases in power tariffs last Wednesday, 20 July 2022. Days before, Listin Diario had reported that while consumers were subject to major increases in power rates, the staff at the Superintendency of Electricity were also getting major increases, but to their wages.

Protests over the hikes in electricity rates coinciding with hikes in wages made headlines. After, the Superintendency of Electricity set back the most recent increase in wages of the head and board members, not so the employees that got to keep their wage increases. Thousands of people have been appointed at the government-operated electricity entities following the change of government.

The Superintendent of Electricity (SIE) admitted to reporters that its employees had, indeed, received a nice pay raise, but that this was done last September...

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[JD Jones]

No salary increases either.

The guy in charge should be terminated.

Consejo de Superintendencia de Electricidad deja sin efecto ajuste salarial de 9.5%

El Consejo Administrativo de Superintendencia de Electricidad anunció que tomó la decisión de dejar sin efecto proporción del ajuste salarial

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[NanSanPedro]

No salary increases either.

The guy in charge should be terminated.

Consejo de Superintendencia de Electricidad deja sin efecto ajuste salarial de 9.5%

El Consejo Administrativo de Superintendencia de Electricidad anunció que tomó la decisión de dejar sin efecto proporción del ajuste salarial

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Not understanding, JD. Was this for the higher ups or the worker bees? That makes a massive difference in my view.

 

[JD Jones]

Not understanding, JD. Was this for the higher ups or the worker bees? That makes a massive difference in my view

Everyone.

The Administrative Council of the Superintendence of Electricity ( SIE ) announced, this Sunday night, that it made the decision to immediately and voluntarily rescind the proportion of the 9.5% salary adjustment , which became effective on September 1, last year for all employees of the entity.

I'm guessing Luis wasn't too pleased when he saw wage increases and rate increases in the same breath.

 

[josh2203]

Within the last few days, we've had more short outages than during the last 2 years combined... i'm happy to see a bit of protesting here, the service gets s***tier all the time but bills increase...

 

[josh2203]

No salary increases either.

The guy in charge should be terminated.

Consejo de Superintendencia de Electricidad deja sin efecto ajuste salarial de 9.5%

El Consejo Administrativo de Superintendencia de Electricidad anunció que tomó la decisión de dejar sin efecto proporción del ajuste salarial

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I repeat what I wrote a while ago: Just when I think the govt here cannot disappoint more, they do exactly that... At least they are good at something...

 

[NanSanPedro]

Everyone.

The Administrative Council of the Superintendence of Electricity ( SIE ) announced, this Sunday night, that it made the decision to immediately and voluntarily rescind the proportion of the 9.5% salary adjustment , which became effective on September 1, last year for all employees of the entity.

I'm guessing Luis wasn't too pleased when he saw wage increases and rate increases in the same breath.

Understand but that sucks for the worker bees. They have to deal with inflation too.

 

[CristoRey]

Always reactive never proactive.
Law, regulations and decrees (oh my!)
mean nothing until they are fully enforced.