Unions and industry officials agreed on a new wage scale that indicates a minimum of $700 for the Grade 1 and $1,500 for Grade 8.
An article on Prensa.com reports that "... After six months of negotiations the MOH, SSC and CONAGREPROTSA signed a pay scale agreement which substantially improves wages paid to professionals and health technicians in the service of the state.
The private companies should have to consider the risk posed to Costa Rica's business climate by the excesses of state union leaders.
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Costa Rica's democratic traditions pale before the attempt made by a trade unionist to silence the media by threatening the safety of journalists.
An article in Crhoy.com quote statements made by the union member Fabio Chaves regarding the news in Costa Rican media revealing information about unacceptable privileges enjoyed by many officials, acquired against article 57 of the Constitution itself: "Wages will always be equal for equal work under identical conditions of efficiency."
In most cases, whoever uses this phrase is thinking only in their own gain, and not in the benefit of the other, just as China is doing while promising aid to Costa Rica.
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Interestingly, as soon as the issue of the failed oil refinery project to be built in partnership with a Chinese company is made public, the ambassador of that country appears in Costa Rica, carrying under his arm a portfolio of cooperation projects from its generous government to be carried out with the Central American nation (see article Crhoy.com "Solis said that China has more cooperation projects for Costa Rica").
The President of the IADB has advised Costa Rica to make a tax reform to raise taxes arguing that today the teetotum indicates "everyone gives".
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The use of the old fashioned game of a faceted spinner by the head of the hemispheric institution as example, deserves to have the whole story told: the person who spun the teetotum was the Costa Rican government, the same participant of the "game" who on their previous turn benefited from the teetotum when it landed showing "TAKE ALL". Luis Alberto Moreno is saying that the serious fiscal crisis which the country now finds itself in means that now everyone must contribute to its solution. That means aproving more taxes.
Information about salaries of officials at the state run telecoms company has been released, which include the more than $4000 a month paid to a chauffeur.
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An article in Prensalibre.cr reports that "... deputy Otto Guevara unveiled the list of salaries of 22000 officials working in the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) and Radiographic Costarricense (RACSA) and National Power and Light Company (CNFL), which included details of a light vehicle chauffer earning ¢2,132,854 ($4,000) a month. It also highlighted the 854,000 colones ($1,600) paid to a floral arranger and 6 million colones ($11,200) a month received by a public accountant and auditor, while a human resources assistant earns 3,372,536 ($6,300). "
The private sector has asked the government to seek consensus on the issue among the productive sectors, in the context of a slowing economy.
Unlike the last adjustment that was made in December 2013, this year the negotiations will take place in a different economic and political context, where elements such as mild slowdown in economic activity and differences between the private sector and the Varela administration will put to the test the negotiation process.
Between January and April this year, the state payroll increased by 11,161 people, mainly in the Social Security Department and the ministries of Education, Health and Finance.
The increase in staff also raises the total value of wages, which rose in monthly terms of $210 million when there were 194,855 employees to $227 million after an increase to 206,016 workers.
The country that once had the best institutions in Central America is now hiring an agency of the UN created to solve problems in countries lacking those institutions.
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With full confidence, senior officials responsible for public infrastructure projects have justified the award of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), indicating that through this measure they will be able to sidestep the control exercised by the Comptroller General of the Republic over the award and performance of government contracts.
An official report reveals that Costa Rican government officials get sick five times more than those in the private sector.
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Data from the Central Evaluation Commission on Disabilities of the Costa Rican Social Security Department (CCSS) indicate that during 2014 the average number of days that each civil servant was incapacitated by illness was five times higher than the average number of days each private sector worker was absent from their duties due to illness.
Following revelations about corruption at the highest level and the processing of those involved, it is unlikely that an official will request bribe money from a businessman.
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Some analysts are concerned about the effect of allegations of corruption in Guatemala, noting that it will increase mistrust and the instability in economic activity, which could even have a negative effect because of the greater weight of the Guatemalan economy in Central America, over other countries in the region.
"Civil service careers are influenced by arbitrariness, politicization, patronage, the search for private profit and patronage criteria and with posts being filling up with public servants who do not have the sufficient merits to perform their functions."
From a statement issued by the Salvadoran Foundation for Development (FUSADES), regarding the report The Civil Service and Patronage:
In some countries in the region the gap between those who have to manage a business and those who seek to govern a country is widening, with appalling consequences for the economic and social development of those nations.
EDITORIAL
Opportunity in decision-making and risk management.
- An entrepreneur who does not make decisions threatens the existence of their company, and consequently their personal assets, and often the family economy and in turn their children's future.
In Costa Rica civil servants earn on average 150% more than workers in the private sector, which contributes decisively to the growth of inequality and lowers the overall competitiveness of human resources.
"... State overregulation has made business legality a privilege that can only be accessed with economic or political power. "
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In these countries, poor since time immemorial, state bureaucrats whose regular salaries allow them to live in a first world fantasy land have as their primary concern checking that things are done as they should be, that is to say, as they are done in the first world.
Trade unionists who promote it, the officials who estimate it, the rulers who decree it, are not part of the legion of unemployed who surely would work for less than the official minimum wage.
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The unemployed have no voice, in principle because they do not pay a sindical fee, and if they did have one, they would not raise it, because it feels devoid of the dignity necessary to do so, because they are used to adopting a very humble position in job interviews. Nothing further impoverishes the human spirit that lack of gainful income of one form or another.
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