{"id":7991,"date":"2004-10-14T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/senate-approves-30-pay-raise\/"},"modified":"2004-10-14T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T01:43:56","slug":"senate-approves-30-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/10\/14\/senate-approves-30-pay-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves 30% pay raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Dominican Senate approved last night, after certain modifications and just one reading, a 30% increase in the minimum wage for public servants and private employees. Nineteen of the twenty senators present in the chamber voted affirmatively on the measure. The PLD&#8217;s Senator Jose Tomas Perez (Santo Domingo) abstained. Perez had proposed that the legislation be sent to a joint committee that would work together with the Executive Branch to find a way to include more than just the minimum wage earners. The special commission that had studied the original bill, as headed by Tommy Duran (PRD-Puerto Plata), gave a favorable report to the full chamber. The new pay raises for government minimum wage earners will go into effect in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Senate approved last night, after certain modifications and just one reading, a 30% increase in the minimum wage for public servants and private employees. Nineteen of the twenty senators present in the chamber voted affirmatively on the measure. The PLD&#8217;s Senator Jose Tomas Perez (Santo Domingo) abstained. Perez had proposed that the legislation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/10\/14\/senate-approves-30-pay-raise\/\" 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":[223,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991"}],"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=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}