Last night, the Honduran government set the salary adjustment for 2010 to a seven percent increase. The former executive director of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (Cohep), Benjamin Bogran, said the new minimum wage increase by the Government was the “right decision.” According to the employer, with the new salary adjustment, the government is […]
Honduran unions have planned a series of actions over the next two weeks to protest four issues: the national minimum wage, a law suspending pay increases for teachers, restrictions on pay increases for other public employees, and the use of temporary workers. Representatives of the labor federations, teachers’ organizations and the National Popular Resistance Front […]
The leaders of the working class on Thursday stressed they will not accept any compensatory bonus, as announced by President Porfirio Lobo Sosa. “We have decided not to accept the 2010 bonus or anything like that.” … “The law clearly states that there should be a percentage adjustment to the minimum wage for workers in […]
The Labor Secretary, Felícito Avila, said that the government hopes today to ratify with the labor unions, a proposal to grant a bonus compensation of 2,000 lempiras, instead of a minimum wage increase this year. Avila said that the leaders of the labor unions have been invited to a meeting today with President Pepe Lobo, […]
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: […]