Monday, September 19, 2011

Xavier Starting on Right Foot

Paying a full compensation for salaries up to Rs7,000 per month and a partial one up to Rs30,000 has been well received. And given that the minimum compensation paid will not be lower than Rs330 someone making Rs3,000/month will be getting an increment of 11% which is almost twice the inflation rate.

And as noticed by several people including Reaz Chuttoo of the Confederation des Travailleurs Du Secteur Prive (CTSP) the Government seems to be acknowledging that a minimum salary shouldn't be lower than Rs7,000. Besides SC/HSC fees are now paid by the State for family income not exceeding Rs14,500. That's another hint.

XLD's move also smashes a myth that a finance minister will have more consideration for the lower-income groups if he sported the ancestor of havaianas when he was a teenager. Especially after claiming to have read all the books on poverty.

Yep. Mr Chuttoo, reminded us in an interview that the salary threshold for receiving a full compensation was reduced by 40% from Rs4,500 to Rs2,700 in 2008. Which was apparently the year of the Bumper Crop... 

5 comments:

akagugo said...

The last sentence is apparently a PAF. :-)

But I really hope that we end up some day having a decent health and employment insurance as is the case in most developed economies...

akagugo said...

Mr Chuttoo's interview here. And some trade-union bashing for food measure.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Si fer bann system dan nu pei vinn dinamik kot nu pa pu kav met partu korek?

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Bliye razut sa: a traver listwar nu pei bann sindika finn kontribye masivman. Ti pu bon si zot donn enn dexiem zenes muvman sindikal... ek vinn plis pragmatik...

akagugo said...

Déziem zéness? Hmm, pa cwar avek bann syndikalis ki gett figir bann ka avant zott pronons zot, ki'nn "embourgeoisé" ek ki pliy koté la-briz souflé sak fwa, péna simé.
Pareiy couma nou bann politiciens, bann syndicalis asterla méritt enn "full formatting"