PROTESTS EXPECTED OVER NEW MINIMUM WAGE LEVELS FOR HAITIAN GARMENT WORKERS
October 1st, 2018
MORE than 52,000 Haitian garment sector workers are likely to be demonstrating on the streets of the island’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, next week after trades unions representatives rejected the increase in the minimum wage proposed by the government.
The Haitian government published a decree on the minimum wage increase for various industry sectors on October 1st, in its official newspaper, Le Moniteur, Presses Nationales d’Haiti. Under Article 5 (Segment F), earnings in the export-oriented assembly industries and other manufacturing industries – the ...
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