Baptiste wants a ‘national living wage’ - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Rethinking a living wage

A living wage makes for good politics, but it is usually very bad economics.“We are working towards a living wage,” Labour Minister Leroy Baptiste said last Tuesday in the Senate. His statement confirms as policy the manifesto promise made by…

Baptiste wants a ‘national living wage’ - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

LABOUR Minister Leroy Baptiste would like to go further than workers enjoying merely a minimum wage to have them become entitled to a “national living wage”, he proposed in the Senate debate on the Mid Year Review on July 1. He promised a workers agenda that would include reform of labour laws such as the Industrial Relations Act and the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act. “We are also committed to the creation of a national living wage.” P…