{"id":173945,"date":"2022-02-16T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=173945"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:23:19","slug":"sugar-industry-worker-wages-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/02\/16\/sugar-industry-worker-wages-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar industry worker wages increased"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Luis-Abinader-con-los-caneros-Presidencia-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173917\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Luis-Abinader-con-los-caneros-Presidencia-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Luis-Abinader-con-los-caneros-Presidencia-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Luis-Abinader-con-los-caneros-Presidencia-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Luis-Abinader-con-los-caneros-Presidencia.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>President Luis Abinader meets with sugar industry workers. \/ Presidency<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Labor announces a new minimum wage increase for sugar cane industry workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labor Minister Luis Miguel De Camps Garc\u00eda explained that the salary for sugar industry workers is divided into two groups: those in the fields and the administrative and manufacturing workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minimum wage for the field workers went from RD$198.23 per day to RD$400 per day, up 101.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minimum wage for employees in factory and administrative areas was RD$7,663 per month and is increased to RD$15,000, up 97%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase is retroactive to January 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/empleo\/2022\/02\/15\/incrementaran-salarios-de-trabajadores-del-campo\/1642130\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 February 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Labor announces a new minimum wage increase for sugar cane industry workers. Labor Minister Luis Miguel De Camps Garc\u00eda explained that the salary for sugar industry workers is divided into two groups: those in the fields and the administrative and manufacturing workers. The minimum wage for the field workers went from RD$198.23 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/02\/16\/sugar-industry-worker-wages-increased\/\" 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":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173945"}],"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=173945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173979,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173945\/revisions\/173979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}