Readjusting the minimum wage benefits a few and harms many

The director of Labor and president of Conasam, Jesús Echauri, recognized that the readjustment of the minimum wage will reach the small percentage that reaches that figure but will harm the many workers who do not even earn that salary but will have to suffer the increase in prices of basic products. from the family basket.

Today the members of Conasam meet and the recommendation to the Executive will be the readjustment of 4.4% of the minimum wage, which adds up to 117,936 guaraníes more, which will make the figure 2,798,309 guaraníes.

When asked on 730 AM about the fact that this readjustment implies, in reality, the loss of the purchasing power of the majority of the country’s workers, he accepted that it is a reality and added that “we should see another study mechanism or that it be more complete, that it covers everything, even a food index, etc.”

Although he assured that “this is a lack of salary readjustment policy,” he did not commit to promoting any proposal that would correct the error.

With the current scenario, which has been going on for years, those who earn just a little more than the minimum wage have had their salary frozen all this time, since, instead of existing a Salary Commission, what exists is a Salary Commission Minimal, which deals with a small percentage of the population and excludes a majority.

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