In May 2019 Africanews reported that the head of Ethiopia’s state investment body said the government should settle on a minimum wage and other labor rules to protect workers as factories and industrial parks expanded.
The remarks came while investors chased low-cost garment and manufacturing deals, and while unions and rights groups warned that growth without a wage floor left park workers exposed.
A public debate over minimum pay sat beside later MoLSA talk of livable wages inside industrial parks, and it marked how Abiy Ahmed’s early reform years mixed FDI marketing with labor pressure.
Kept as labor and business archive, the investment-chief comment is a dated checkpoint for Ethiopia’s unfinished minimum-wage fight.
Sources: Africanews