He business sector returned yesterday, for the fourth time, to the tripartite table without having any proposal regarding the adjustment of the minimum wage rates of private companies not sectorized and asked the National Wage Committee (CNS) time without date to agree on their proposal.
In view of the request for time raised by the employers, the trade union sector, Considering the request for time to be a delaying tactic for employers, he proposed that the increase in minimum wages be applied retroactively to January 2023.
The president of the National Confederation of Trade Union Unity (CNUS), Rafael -Pepe- Abreu, He assured that this is a delaying tactic by employers to “shuffle” the necessary increase as much as possible and said that in other years in which minimum wages have been reviewed, retroactivity has been applied when the discussion is delayed.
In this stage, the unions summoned the representatives of the Government in the tripartite table so that they assume a consistent position to the mandate of the labor law to readjust wages every two years to restore the purchasing power of workers in the face of the inflationary wave.
As a conclusion of the tripartite meeting, the CNS decided that in the next meeting the Government will take a position if the employers still do not have their proposal for an increase in minimum wages ready.
