{"id":207562,"date":"2023-12-04T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=207562"},"modified":"2023-12-04T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T13:20:00","slug":"local-industry-provides-nearly-two-million-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/12\/04\/local-industry-provides-nearly-two-million-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Local industry provides nearly two million jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Julio-Virgilio-Brache-El-Dinero-1024x646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207656\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Julio-Virgilio-Brache-El-Dinero-1024x646.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Julio-Virgilio-Brache-El-Dinero-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Julio-Virgilio-Brache-El-Dinero-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Julio-Virgilio-Brache-El-Dinero.png 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the Dominican Republic Association of Industries (AIRD), Julio Virgilio Brache told reporters that the sector provides over 480,000 direct jobs, and is behind another 1.4 million indirect jobs, impacting a very large percentage of the Dominican population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brache noted that nearly 70% of the jobs in industry contribute to the Social Security Treasury, compared to just 39% in the overall private sector. He noted that jobs in the industrial sector generally pay about 20% above the average salaries in the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the annual awards ceremony presided over by Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a, business people Cesar Iglesias and Rafael Menicucci, and the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Mypimes (Micro, Small and Medium Businesses) Victor (Ito) Bison\u00f3 were recognized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/dinero\/sector-industrial-genera-hasta-1-4-mm-de-empleos-en-rd\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 December 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Dominican Republic Association of Industries (AIRD), Julio Virgilio Brache told reporters that the sector provides over 480,000 direct jobs, and is behind another 1.4 million indirect jobs, impacting a very large percentage of the Dominican population. Brache noted that nearly 70% of the jobs in industry contribute to the Social Security &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/12\/04\/local-industry-provides-nearly-two-million-jobs\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207562"}],"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=207562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207658,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207562\/revisions\/207658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}