Editorial, El Deber: The Bolivian Labor Confederation and the Government are in full negotiation over salary increases. The labor union is asking for an eight percent increase in the basic salary and a seven percent increase in the national minimum wage. This aspiration is completely detached from reality, reflecting a trend towards tightening belts in…
Tag: underemployment
The wage policy is destroying dignified employment | La política salarialista está destruyendo el empleo digno
Ronald Nostas, El Deber: A few days ago, the Bolivian Labor Federation (COB), which represents less than 10% of the country’s workers, presented the government with a list of 152 demands that include measures in the political, legal, and economic spheres, most of which are outside its responsibility and competence. Of all these demands, the…
82.8% Of Bolivians Generate Their Own Employment | El 82.8 % De Los Bolivianos Genera Su Propio Empleo
El Mundo: The main leader of the Confederation of Trade Unionists of Bolivia, César González, has emphasized that the unemployment statistics provided by the government are considerably far from reality. González underlined the presence of his organization in more than 300 municipalities, highlighting that new merchants emerge every day due to the growing shortage of…
¿Qué hacer frente al mercado laboral informal? – What to do regarding the informal labor market?
El sector laboral informal creció desproporcionadamente desde 2006, el gobierno masista logró duplicar el número de los funcionarios públicos, cómo una forma de retribuir a sus cohortes de grupos de choque, fáciles de desplegar en las calles, cada vez que el gobierno así lo requería, con el fin de mostrar fuerza cuando la oposición cuestionó…
The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS, for the wrong reasons!
El Dia reports: The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS Factory workers dismiss the MAS as an instrument of defense of labor rights and discuss the formation of a political party for 2019 to the mistreatment received by the Government in recent years. That possibility and other issues are discussed in a national expanded…
Unemployment hits hard our young professionals
Yesterday most of the world celebrated Labor day, today I wanted to share an article that is shocking, depressing and hard to revert situation: Bolivian young professionals face underemployment, and/or unemployment. Bolivia does not elude what is happening around the world. Ruy D’Alencar writes for El Deber: Short, from La Paz, uses dreadlocks in his…
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