{"id":276947,"date":"2019-05-23T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiamh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMjQvZXRoaW9waWEtbmVlZHMtbWluaW11bS13YWdlLWxhdy10by1wcm90ZWN0LXdvcmtlcnMtaW52ZXN0bWVudC1jaGllZi_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:35","slug":"ethiopias-investment-chief-said-a-minimum-wage-law-was-needed-to-protect-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276947","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s investment chief said a minimum wage law was needed to protect workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Africanews reported that the head of Ethiopia\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia\u2019s investment chief said a minimum wage law was needed to protect workers\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A public debate over minimum pay sat beside later MoLSA talk of livable wages inside industrial parks, and it marked how Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform years mixed FDI marketing with labor pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as labor and business archive, the investment-chief comment is a dated checkpoint for Ethiopia\u2019s unfinished minimum-wage fight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/24\/ethiopia-needs-minimum-wage-law-to-protect-workers-investment-chief\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia needs minimum wage law to protect workers \u2013 Investment chief&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishHead of Ethiopia&#8217;s state-run investment body says it is time the government settles on a minimum wage among others to protect the interests of workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a2T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754897,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276947\/revisions\/754897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}