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Santo Domingo.- As Congress debates the government wage bill, which many sectors consider a way to raise the salaries of top officials even higher, 53.6% of Dominican workers earn less than RD$10,000 (US$250) per month.
Social Security Treasury (TSS) figures for June quoted by diariolibre.com 1,390,286 workers are registered in the social security system, of which around 745,500 earn salaries ranging from 0 to RD$10,000.
There were 736,365 of those workers in the first half of last year, so for the same 2012 period it increased by 1.24%, or 9,163 more salaried people.
According to the data employees who earn between RD$10,001 and RD$15,000 represent around 237,540 workers in the first six months and are around 22,225 more than the same period last year, a variation of 10.32%.
The 237,540 employees there were to June represent 17% of the employees with salaries below RD$15,000 and increased to RD$10,000.
Around 73,829 workers earn between RD$20,001 and RD$25,000, while those earning more than RD$ 25,000 are around 217,412, or 32,459 more than in the first half of 2011. That’s equal 17.55%, while 217,412 of those represent 15.6% of the total, of 1.3 million.
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The results of 12 years of PURPLE PLD Neo-Liberal Stealing!
"Dominican employers pay their employees the lowest possibe wage with the fewest benefits"
So why do we have labor laws and minimum wage requirements? And who has been in charge of them for last 12 out of 16?
Reduce the number of useless armed-forces personnel, and increase police and teacher's salaries.
Some government officials, such as the Central Bank president, Cortinas Ng, is paid the unbelieveable sum of $20.000 DOLLARS per month! ..What can he possibly be doing to justify this kind of money?
The guy rakes in four times the amount paid to our nation's president. ..Outrageous!!!
how true.
but i have said many times dominicans in power treat their own as slaves.
not only this but they also look down on theses poor souls.
keep them dumb and with out a formal education.
keep the education from them, so the rich can get even richer as each day past by.
maybe we have to build more choo choo train and blue malls?
all aboard.
u have no country with out a real police force, why does every home have bars around it? i know why and u do also.
pay the teachers what they want and pay them more then they ask, pay for real police not not fools who dress in rags who carry a badge and a gun,
but i think to have the above u in the 1st place need a real government and president who cares about their people and their country what u have have is a government as u always have fatten their banks accounts .
choo choo train
all aboard.