Guatemalan Court Slaps Down Plan to Reduce Minimum Wage
Guatemalan Court Slaps Down Plan to Reduce Minimum Wage
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Former president President Otto Perez Molina also tried to reduce the minimum wage, but the move was also
overruled by the courts. | Photo: Reuters
Published 8 January 2016 (6 hours 52 minutes ago) [/font]
Guatemalan courts said lowering the minimum wage – which would force people to work for less than a living wage – is unconstitutional.
The Guatemalan courts have temporarily ruled in favor of local workers and suspended a government decision to lower the minimum wage in certain areas of the country.
President Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre passed a motion on Dec. 30 to lower the minimum wage for workers of light industrial manufacturing in four municipalities – forcing people to work below a living wage, in a country where the poverty rate is almost 60 percent.
However, the constitutional court sided with local local unions and the ombudsman for human rights, Jorge de Leon, Thursday who argued that the move was unconstitutional.
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