Fiji Sun, 07 December 2018 – Government will now start a comprehensive review of hourly wage rates with the aim of determining wide- reaching pay rises.
This is to include the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and across the country’s 10 sectoral wages that already stand above the NMW – printing trades, wholesale and retail trades, hotel and catering trades, garment industry, sawmilling and logging industry, road transport, building and civil and electrical engineering trades, garment industry, sawmilling and logging industry, road transport, building and civil and electrical engineering trades, manufacturing industry,mining and quarrying industry, and security services.
The review was first announced in the 2018-2019 National Budget address by Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. Read more…
