The increase in the minimum wage, which has had a recovery of 71% in the last three and a half years, is not a factor that impacts the increase in inflation, so the salary recovery policy will continue in the current administration; Well, it is not expected that there will be an emergency adjustment either, as part of the plan to contain the increase in inflation that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will present.
So commented the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Luisa María Mayor Lujáninterviewed after her participation in the 44th anniversary of the Central de Trabajadores y Campesinos, to whom she said that for more than 4 decades the minimum wage was used as a pretext to control inflation.
“The minimum salary, four decades of salary contention, it fell below the poverty level and we could not, we could not overcome that line, that barrier, jointly, we managed, as of December 2018, to start a recovery process. We have, in three and a half years, 71% recovery of the purchasing power of the minimum wage; 160% in the case of the northern border; and the same thing happens when we talk about the average salary of the IMSS, because it is not just the minimum salary, with an increase of almost 13 percent”.
In this sense, he maintained that the objective of the present administration is to achieve that the minimum salary It not only covers a basic basket for the person who works, but it also covers a dependent.
He added that they will be attentive to the plan to contain inflation presented by the federal Executive, which seeks to take care of a basic basket.
“We have achieved several things, I believe that on the issue of salary, we will continue to advance, it is one of them, we have not yet achieved enough, we have a clear goal to have a minimum of well-being and that will be achieved in consensus with the business sector”, pointed.
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