{"id":126172,"date":"2019-05-13T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=126172"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:30:28","slug":"once-again-salary-talks-break-down-as-management-offers-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/13\/once-again-salary-talks-break-down-as-management-offers-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again, salary talks break down as management offers 8%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ministerio-de-Trabajo-El-Nacional.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126215\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The talks regarding possible industry-wide minimum wage increases have once again broken off as management offered 8% against the 30% demanded by worker representatives in the talks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, one of the major stumbling blocks to a successful resolution of these discussions is the call by management to reclassify different enterprises before salary talks can begin in earnest.  Management wants to introduce a new company category  \u2014the micro-enterprise\u2014 and labor flatly refuses to accept this and insists instead on the salary increases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of the National Central for Dominican Workers (CNTD), Jacobo Ramos, said that management\u2019s positions are purely \u201csectarian,\u201d adding that his people are totally opposed to the reclassification of different businesses at this point, and will consider this only after wage talks conclude satisfactorily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rafael (Pepe) Abreu, another union leader, concurred that management\u2019s insistence on the reclassification of companies makes an agreement impossible. According to reports, Gabriel del Rio, Ramos and Abreu have said that labor will, once again, take to the streets and call upon foreign, international agencies to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/una-vez-mas-concluye-sin-acuerdo-reunion-sobre-salarios-empresarios-ofrecen-8-de-30\/\">El&nbsp;Nacional<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talks regarding possible industry-wide minimum wage increases have once again broken off as management offered 8% against the 30% demanded by worker representatives in the talks. As reported, one of the major stumbling blocks to a successful resolution of these discussions is the call by management to reclassify different enterprises before salary talks can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/13\/once-again-salary-talks-break-down-as-management-offers-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126216,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126172\/revisions\/126216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}