The Kenyan government is implementing a package of wage measures and structural reforms to strengthen the purchasing power and expand social protection for the country’s workforce.

Colombia’s government reissued a 23.7% minimum wage decree after a court suspension, preserving the increase with added technical justification.

Colombia’s president calls mass protests after a court suspends a 23.7 percent minimum wage hike, as talks with unions and employers resume.

Bolivia ended fuel subsidy protests after a new decree preserved higher fuel prices while introducing wage increases and social measures agreed with unions.

Over the last year, the wage has experienced a deterioration in real terms as the purchasing power in pesos fell by 17.8%. On Thursday, Argentine President Javier Milei set a new mandatory minimum wage with a 9.3 percent increase (US$17) that will be spread out in four staggered increases until next year. RELATED: Increasing Poverty […]

‘The minimum wage does drive economic growth. With enslaved workers, a country’s economy does not grow,’ he stated. On Tuesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro decreed a 9.54 percent increase in the country’s minimum wage. Starting January 1, the minimum wage will rise from 1,300,000 to to 1,423,500 Colombian pesos, that is, from US$294 to US$322. […]