The Cuban government will carry out a salary advance to workers in December, one month before the implementation of monetary unification in the country, in order to cover the prices increased as of January 1.
"The salary reform will become effective in the month of December," he stated in the programRound table the Minister of Labor and Social Security,Marta Elena Feitó.
The advance payment of 1,000 pesos to workers will be made starting December 23, although not everyone will be able to collect that same day.
This advance has the objective that workers can face prices from day zero, that is, January 1, when the so-called economic reorganization of the country begins.
The official said that with this money, workers will be able to guarantee "the purchase of the family basket" and that this year's end "they will have better purchasing power to face this new situation."
After this advance, when the workers receive the due month, they will be paid the difference between what they have received up to that moment, that is, their increased salary minus 1,000 pesos, Feitó explained.
The increase of 1,000 Cuban pesos corresponds to all active workers, women on maternity leave, those who receive maternity benefits, and those on leave who were receiving the salary guarantee.
However, people who are on unpaid leave, and laid-off workers who did not accept job relocation in the midst of this situation, will not receive this sum.
In the official television space it was reiterated that the minimum wage is set at 2,100 Cuban pesos per month.
"It is the result of multiplying the cost of the basket of goods and services by the coefficient 1.3," said the official.
This measure is part ofthe monetary reunification that will launch the regime of the Island as of January 1, and which was announced last Thursday by President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Months before, they had explained that this measure would imply a comprehensive redesign of the monetary, exchange, tax, credit, price, salary and other income subsystems of citizens.
"We reiterate the importance of this task that will put the country in better conditions to carry out the transformations demanded by the updating of our economic and social model on the basis of guaranteeing all Cubans the greatest equality of opportunities, rights and social justice. which will be possible not through egalitarianism, but by promoting interest and motivation in work," said Díaz-Canel.
He also maintained that the "organization task", as the government calls it, does not in itself constitute the magic solution to all the problems present in the Cuban economy.
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