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After the Government determines to make a 0% readjustment to the minimum wage, the Minister of Economy, Lucas Palacios, referred to the discussion on the subject and argued why it was difficult to raise the salary in the midst of the crisis that the country is experiencing as a result of Covid-19.
On your visit to the morning Pleasure of Mega, Palacios pointed out that “we are in an unprecedented situation and what we need is to create new jobs. What happens that when the minimum wage is set, this is for public employees, whose jobs are insured, what is done is a signal to the rest of the economy and SMEs are half jumping to death. So if we demand that they have to pay their workers more, it will cost them more to stand up.“.
The Minister of Economy added that “this is very simple, if I have limited money in the country and what we lack is money to be able to hire, to be able to start the country, there you say ‘now, but to start now you have to pay more wages. ‘ So does it cost more or does it cost less to start? It costs more and I’m going to hit fewer people“.
Faced with the concern of the conductors Diana Bolocco and Soledad Onetto about the current $ 320,500 pesos of minimum salary, Palacios replied that “watch out, if there is a person whose family group is below the poverty line, they have access to other State benefits. We keep the pure salary. You have to keep the income of the families ”.
“If there is a person who lives alone and who earns $ 320 thousand, it can be reached without problems. But if there is a person who earns $ 600 thousand, but has to support eight children, this is a much more precarious situation. It is much more complex than is usually raised, that is why there are the tools of the State to be able to supplement the income of families“, Argued the minister.
When questioned by Bolocco, Palacios insisted that “It must be recognized that this crisis is leaving not only Chile, but the world much poorer. Unfortunately, we are going to have to see how to compensate the poorest families in the country with the tools of the State ”.
