Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The country’s private business sector said that the establishment of a new minimum wage for workers is an issue that “was closed” at the time that union leaders gave the government until August 15th of this year to make a decision.

The legal adviser of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP), Armando Urtecho, said: “The private sector already defined their position, if workers want to go to demonstrations, torch the country, burning factories or request the removal of all government officials, they will do so, but for us, the minimum wage matter is closed.”

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NIKE, Inc. and the Central General de Trabajadores de Honduras (CGT), representing the former employees of the Nike contract supplier factories Hugger and Vision Tex, have reached an agreement to help improve the lives of workers affected by the Hugger and Vision Tex factory closures in Honduras.

Nike and CGT are concerned for the workers in Honduras and have agreed to take important steps to support former employees of Hugger and Vision Tex. Through this agreement, Nike will contribute to a workers relief fund of $1.5 million to be administered jointly by CGT, the Solidarity Center, the Worker Rights Consortium and supervised by professor Lance Compa of Cornell University.

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Employers are supporting the initiative of the National Congress to create more jobs in Honduras, by submitting proposals to incorporate more flexible schedules for workers; however, labor unions are opposed to the idea.

Mario Bustillo, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tegucigalpa (CCIT), reported that it submitted this proposal to facilitate the project promoted by the National Congress. The business sector believes that part-time employment will generate more jobs, and that the labor unions have not provided any comprehensive proposal in this regard.

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