{"id":2813,"date":"2014-02-27T18:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2014-02-27T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:13:38","slug":"labour-proposes-20-percent-increase-in-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Labour proposes 20 percent increase in minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-Cedis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2814\" alt=\"A woman holds 03 July 2007 in Accra a wa\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-Cedis-300x211.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-Cedis-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ghana-Cedis.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Labour Unions in Ghana are proposing a 20 percent increment in the National Daily Minimum Wage for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The current daily minimum wage is GHC 5.24pesewas.<\/p>\n<p>It was increased by 17 percent from the previous GHC4.48pesewas in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers.<\/p>\n<p>The 20 percent proposal was presented at the second National Tripartite Committee meeting this year following workers\u2019 demands due to increases in utility tariffs and inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Government and employers are expected to consult and present a reaction to the proposal at the next adjourned tripartite meeting on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Citi Business News, the secretary general of the Ghana Federation of Labour Abraham Koomson said: \u201cPeople should not confuse this minimum wage to mean it is an increment to be added onto people\u2019s wages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Rabiu Alhassan\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Unions in Ghana are proposing a 20 percent increment in the National Daily Minimum Wage for 2014. The current daily minimum wage is GHC 5.24pesewas. It was increased by 17 percent from the previous GHC4.48pesewas in 2013. A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,4],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}