Pedro Castillo: “No formal worker will earn less than 1,000 soles since December”

This Wednesday, the president Pedro Castillo He specified that his management will raise the current minimum remuneration, established at 930 soles.

“Starting in December, no formal worker will earn less than 1,000 soles a month until the minimum wage is increased,” he said in Ayacucho during the presentation of the balance of his first 100 days of government.

On the other hand, he added that more than 100,000 informal workers were incorporated into the electronic payroll through the Labor Inspection system and positively impacted more than 400,000 people.

Proposals

A couple of weeks ago, the premier Mirtha Vasquez announced that the State will provide a direct subsidy of 70 soles per month for workers with salaries of up to 2,000 soles, specifically for the labor force concentrated in the mypes.

This aims to “provide temporary support to improve the purchasing power of formal workers in vulnerable situations”, and will allow the resumption of activities in sectors such as commerce and services, hit by COVID-19.

Along these lines, the president emphasized that a subsidy of 70 soles will be paid to temporarily increase the minimum salary received by formal workers in vulnerable situations.