QCOSTARICA The Consejo Nacional de Salarios (CNS) - National Wage Council - approved on Monday, a general increase in minimum wages in the private sector of 1.83%, which will come into force as of January 1, 2024. Representatives of the labor, business, and government sectors participated equally at the CNS negotiation table. The approval…
Q COSTA RICA - When former president Carlos Alvarado was in office, he insisted he would give up his ex-president's pension, even though it's against the law. Labor institutions kept explaining that it's an unchangeable right and happens automatically. After a year and a month since he left power (on May 8, 2022) did the…
QCOSTARICA - The Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (MTSS) - Ministry of Labor and Social Security - announced that May 1, International Labor Day, will be one of the mandatory paid holidays, as established in article 148 of the Labor Code. The law establishes that no working person is obliged to work those holidays,…