2004News

Salary Commission to study areas of tourism

The salaries for employees in the tourism and construction sectors were not included in the recent minimum wage scales announced last week. Gloria Henriquez, the commission president, told Diario Libre reporters that the salaries for these two key sectors would be reviewed this week. The industrial free zones already have a wage agreement that was signed in 2003 and runs to 2005. As for the farming sector, Henriquez said that the agreement to increase the daily minimum wage by 30% would mean a daily wage for agricultural workers of RD$130.