{"id":231882,"date":"2025-02-25T04:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=231882"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:50:25","slug":"president-abinader-stands-by-his-proposed-20-increase-in-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/25\/president-abinader-stands-by-his-proposed-20-increase-in-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"President Abinader stands by his proposed 20% increase in minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luis-Abinader-La-Semanal-1024x580.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231952\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luis-Abinader-La-Semanal-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luis-Abinader-La-Semanal-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luis-Abinader-La-Semanal-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luis-Abinader-La-Semanal-1536x871.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luis-Abinader-La-Semanal-2048x1161.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Business representatives have proposed a 10% increase in the opening of the National Wage Committee meetings at the Ministry of Labor. Labor sector representatives are asking for a 30% wage increase. President Luis Abinader speaking during the weekly Monday press conference on 24 February 2025 said he stands by the 20% proposed minimum wage hike that he says would be sufficient to produce a real wage difference above inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Wage Committee is meeting on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at the Ministry of Labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HokkEjTJaeY\">La Semanal 24 February 2025 <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/abinader-reitera-aumento-salarial-debe-ser-de-un-20-y-asegura-es-sustentable-para-la-economia-1795757\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/los-empresarios-proponen-10-luis-abinader-20-de-aumento-salarial\/\">El Dia <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/empleo\/2025\/02\/24\/gobierno-defiende-propuesta-de-un-20--de-aumento-salarial\/3010960\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 February 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business representatives have proposed a 10% increase in the opening of the National Wage Committee meetings at the Ministry of Labor. Labor sector representatives are asking for a 30% wage increase. President Luis Abinader speaking during the weekly Monday press conference on 24 February 2025 said he stands by the 20% proposed minimum wage hike &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/25\/president-abinader-stands-by-his-proposed-20-increase-in-minimum-wage\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231882"}],"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=231882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231954,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231882\/revisions\/231954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}