The head of the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE), Betssy Chávez, estimates that during the first half of this year the increase in the minimum living wage (RMV) could be specified, which is at S/ 930, an amount established since 2018.
“We optimistically understand that it has to be in the first semester,” Minister Chavez said at a press conference.
However, the official specified that it must first go through a technical evaluation in the National Council for Labor and Employment Promotion (CNTPE), in which workers, employers and the State participate.
discussion is postponed
Despite the fact that it was scheduled to start yesterday the discussion on the increase in the RMV in the CNTPE Plenary, it could not finally be carried out because it was requested that a consensus agenda be established first between the executive coordinators of the workers and employers.
In this sense, a meeting was scheduled for next Wednesday, February 2, to build the thematic agenda to be addressed in the CNTPE.
In this regard, Minister Chávez indicated that once the issue of the RMV is analyzed, the increase proposal that has been worked on in her office will be presented.
Likewise, he added that the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) also has its proposal, therefore both offices will debate in order to present a consensual offer in the CNTPE.
If an agreement is not reached in the tripartite dialogue on the increase in the RMV, the minister pointed out that it will be the Government that will have to make the decision on this issue.
“There are decisions that are made by the government and we are going to act along these lines, always ready for dialogue,” Chavez Chino pointed out.
For his part, Julio César Bazán, president of the Unitary Central of Workers of Peru (CUT), commented that the RMV and the regulation of labor outsourcing will be one of the main topics to be discussed at the CNTPE.
Raise not for political emotion
The MTPE specified that it seeks that the increases in minimum wages be given by a technical evaluation and not by a “political emotion”, for which they would seek that the formula for calculating the increase in the RMV be institutionalized.
It is important to mention that since 2007 there is an agreed formula –between workers and employers–, but it is only of a referential nature.
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