{"id":277042,"date":"2019-05-25T02:43:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvbW9sc2EtcHVzaC1saXZhYmxlLXdhZ2VzLWluZC1wYXJrc9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:31","slug":"molsa-said-it-would-push-for-livable-wages-inside-industrial-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277042","title":{"rendered":"MoLSA said it would push for livable wages inside industrial parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Reporter reported that the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs planned to push for livable wages in industrial parks under a newly amended labor law then under parliamentary review.<\/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=\"MoLSA said it would push for livable wages inside industrial parks\" \/>\n<p>Park investors had sold Ethiopia on low costs, while workers and some officials argued that wages too thin to live on would fuel unrest and hurt the country\u2019s reputation with brands.<\/p>\n<p>The MoLSA brief pairs with the same week\u2019s investment-chief call for a national minimum wage, and together they show labor policy catching up with FDI marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as labor archive, the livable-wage park push is a dated checkpoint for Ethiopia\u2019s industrial-park social bargain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/molsa-push-livable-wages-ind-parks\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoLSA to push for livable wages in ind. parks&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe newly amended Ethiopian labor law, which is initiated by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA) and currently under review by the parliamentary &#8230;<\/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-277042","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-1a4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277042","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=277042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754911,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277042\/revisions\/754911"}],"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=277042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}