After the government’s announcement that the single basic wage (SBU) for 2024 will be 475 USD in case there is no consensus between workers and employers, the national president of the Ecuadorian Confederation of Unitary Class Organizations of Workers (Cedocut), Mesías Tatamuez said that this was the Government’s offer: raise $25 each year, so “it has to be done”. Current salary is $450.
The leader also called on the Minister of Labor, Patricia Donos, not to wait for November to convene the meetings of the National Council for Work and Wages (CNTS), but to do it now because, apart from being discussed between workers and employers, the SBU is important for solving different sectors, production and employment.
The government of Guillermo Lasso will leave the basic wage of $475 defined until 2024, if there is no consensus between workers and employers
The government minister, Henry Cucalón, assured that the government of Guillermo Lasso will define the issue of the basic wage and that the proposed increase will be a $25 increase as in previous years and based on his campaign offer to increase it by $400 to $500 in four years management. It is up to the Government to define the amount if no consensus is reached in HTZ.
“The government fulfilled its obligation. Meets its commitment to increase by $25 each year. The last two years it was 25 and 25 dollars, and this year it will meet the goal which is proportional, a new dividend of 25 dollars, it cannot be at 500 dollars because it was the fourth year, and this Government has an early departure. , constitutional and legal. This year, which suits us, we will conclude with a proposal that the equivalent amount reach 475 dollars, because this is the thesis of the Government and an election obligation”, said Cucalón in an interview for this newspaper.
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Tatamuez, who is also the titular representative of the CNTS, pointed out that the $25 increase is an “ethical, moral issue” and recalled that “within that, he also said that when his mandate ends, the limit of $500 will be reached.”
However, the leader pointed out, this will not be enough, since the price of the basic basket exceeds 800 dollars. , He said.
In this context, he reminded the outgoing government and the new one, that of newly elected president Daniel Noboa Azín, that the basic basket in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca is $800, and the general basket is also already $800, and that the SBU must take it into account for the calculation what is written in the Constitution, as well as the cost of the basic basket.
The costs of the two family baskets established by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) are adjusted every month; as of last September, the basic basket was $782.34 and the vital was $550.74.
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The National Labor and Wages Council is due to meet in the coming weeks, but Tatamuez believes it should be convened by the Labor Minister now. “Now we have to meet. I would ask the Minister of Labor, as a representative of HTZ, to urgently convene a meeting so that we can sit down and discuss this very issue, the issue of wages that should not be discussed only at the end of the year, but should be discussed constantly through sector commissions”.
Also review how production, employment, underemployment and domestic work are doing. “You don’t just meet three times a year at the end of the year and say: a meeting to say you’ve already met; others to see if there are any proposals, and others say: ‘since there was no agreement that the Government should decide, things are not the same here’.
These are the representatives of employers and workers in the National Wage Council, in order to determine the SBU for 2024.
Tatamuez indicated that an internal technical meeting is scheduled for this Monday, October 23, with United Workers’ Front (FUT) delegates to prepare a proposal for the CNTS sessions.
On behalf of the employers who make up the Council, the Ecuadorian Federation of Exporters (Fedexpor) and the National Federation of Ecuadorian Chambers of Industry announced this Thursday that they would not make statements until the first call to the Council.
Source: Eluniverso
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