{"id":5073,"date":"2003-10-07T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/free-zone-wages-up-25\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T01:43:56","slug":"free-zone-wages-up-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/10\/07\/free-zone-wages-up-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Free zone wages up 25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free zone workers will see wage increases this month, as the National Salaries Committee approved a 15% increase for employees of free zone manufacturing companies, effective 19 October. An additional 10% will go into effect 90 days later, for an overall increase of 25% by January 2004. <\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage of free zone sector workers is currently RD$2,877 per month, which would increase to RD$3,3098.55 this month, and to RD$3,596.25 in January 2004. The free zone sector employs approximately 190,000 employees, according to a report in El Caribe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free zone workers will see wage increases this month, as the National Salaries Committee approved a 15% increase for employees of free zone manufacturing companies, effective 19 October. An additional 10% will go into effect 90 days later, for an overall increase of 25% by January 2004. The minimum wage of free zone sector workers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/10\/07\/free-zone-wages-up-25\/\" 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":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073"}],"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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}