For determining the new basic salary, the goal is for the National Council for Work and Wages – composed of representatives of workers, employers and the Ministry of Labor – to reach a consensus so that the current Government or the new one elected on December 15 “does not have the responsibility” to define it, at least it’s the attitude of the workers.

This week, new Council representatives were elected for the period 2023 – 2025, who must define the unified basic salary (JPP) for 2024. If an agreement is not reached, the decision will be made by the Government as before. . So Guillermo Lasso’s regime raised the basic wage by $25 in 2022 and $25 in 2023, an increase framed in his campaign bid to reach a $500 wage in four years.

The legal time will be enough for the government of Guillermo Lasso to define the basic salary for 2024.

“We hope that the tripartite council will reach a consensus so that the Government, the current one or the one that will be elected on October 15, would not have the responsibility to determine the salary for 2024,” said the president of the Ecuadorian Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Organizations (Ceosl). ), Marcela Arellano, who is part of the tripartite body for the labor sector.

For his part, the Executive Director of the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador (AEBE), José Antonio Hidalgo, who represents the employer sector, indicated that they are organizing the transfer of the technical position from the union. “We hope that the technical views will prevail in these discussions.”

The basic salary is $450, and it was set by the current Government on November 30, 2022, after workers and employers failed to reach an agreement.

After the new National Salary Council takes office on Monday, October 2, Arellano announced that he will define the procedure and dates of the salary debate. Ceoslo’s interest is to advance the debate on wage policy for a country that revalues ​​work.

These are the representatives of employers and workers in the National Wage Council, in order to determine the SBU for 2024.

He also commented that Ceosl and the United Workers’ Front (FUT) agreed to draft a salary policy proposal that ensures the recovery of workers’ purchasing power, i.e. the progressive reduction of the gap between the basic salary and the family basket and the revaluation of work, which they consider fundamental elements for economic reactivation.

“We hope that on this occasion we put the general interests of the country ahead of the specific interests of economic groups and reached agreements with the Government and employers regarding the fairness of wages,” he said.

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According to Arellano, workers cannot continue to subsidize companies that do not have the capacity to sustain themselves and grow with cheap labor. “We remind the state that when labor is cheap, it is wasted, and the economy stagnates, it is time to ensure fair work and wages as mechanisms for getting out of the serious crisis we are in,” he said.

The CNTS consists of four members and an equal number of replacement workers and employers.

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For employers there are:

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