MP casts doubt on introducing minimum wage before 2020
An advisory board recommendation is not expected before the 2020 budget is passed.
27 Aug 2019, 9:00 AM
MP Abdul Gafoor Moosa has raised doubts over setting a minimum wage before 2020 as an advisory board is not expected to make a recommendations before next year’s budget is passed.
“People want a minimum wage to be set this year. But the wage commission says they can start this in December after collecting information,” the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party MP for Hanimadhoo said during the debate on a supplementary budget on Monday night.
“So we can’t believe that the minimum wage funds can be put in next year’s budget and that the changes to people’s wages will be made by 2020.”
Gafoor called on Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer to make arrangements to set a minimum wage before 2020.
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