Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez on Thursday hiked the minimum wage package by 26.3 percent, to $240, in an attempt to quell growing discontent over difficult living conditions ....
Rodriguez urged the private sector to apply this $240 minimum to cases where employee income is currently lower, adding that pensioners will receive the equivalent of $70 per month.
Small increases in minimum wages for the private sector were approved Tuesday (28 April) by the Council of Ministers, after negotiations between government, employers and the trade union federation Consilimo ....
CITUState secretary P. Tejeswara Rao said minimum wages had not been revised in 15 years, even as workers were being forced to put in 12-hour days for meagre pay ....
The Quebec government says the raise will help counter inflation, but a new study suggests that for those living in the province’s largest city the increase is far from enough ... .