{"id":1323,"date":"2022-05-28T15:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandajournalistsunion.com\/news\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2022-05-28T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:14:44","slug":"tanzania-raises-minimum-wage-by-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugandajournalistsunion.com\/wp\/2022\/05\/28\/tanzania-raises-minimum-wage-by-23-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania raises Minimum Wage by 23.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Our Correspondent in Dar es salaam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania&#8217;s President on&nbsp; April 30, 2022st, 2022 appPoved a nearly 25% increase in the minimum wage, marking a departure from the policies of her autocratic predecessor amid protests about the high cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Samia Suluhu Hassan decided on an increase of 23.3%, while also increasing the salaries of government workers for the first time since 2016, her office said in a statement.&nbsp; This is a 2022 Labour Day&nbsp; gift to Tanzanian workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The salary increment was approved considering the country&#8217;s gross domestic product, domestic revenue and developments in both the local and global economies,&#8221; the presidency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since coming to power last year following her predecessor John Magufuli&#8217;s death, Hassan has attempted to break with some of his policies by reaching out to the opposition and reversing course on his approach to coronavirus pandemic, which he downplayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magufuli refused to review wages following his election in October 2015, pursuing ambitious infrastructure plans instead by developing ports and railways and reviving the national airline. Tanzania&#8217;s economy slowed to 4.8% in 2020, barely edging upward to 4.9% the following year, as COVID-19 travel restrictions battered the tourism sector, a key earner in the East African country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the cost of fuel and food has risen as supplies have tightened following the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Labour Day celebrations on May 1, trade unions and civil servants led demonstrations in Tanzania&#8217;s capital Dodoma calling for an increase in wages, with many holding up placards saying: &#8220;Better salaries and benefits for workers is our demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Monetary Fund (IMF) last year loaned Tanzania more than half a billion dollars in emergency financing, saying the country faced &#8220;urgent&#8221; health, economic and humanitarian costs due to a pandemic-induced downturn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Magufuli, whose uncompromising leadership style earned him the nickname &#8220;the Bulldozer,&#8221; Tanzania was an outlier in the global fight against the coronavirus and dismissed the gravity of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magufuli shunned foreign-made vaccines in favor of the healing power of prayer and dismissed masks and testing as unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan has taken a different path, promoting measures to curb the spread of the virus and launching a coronavirus vaccination drive in July\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent in Dar es salaam. Tanzania&#8217;s President on&nbsp; April 30, 2022st, 2022 appPoved a nearly 25% increase in the minimum wage, marking a departure from the policies of her autocratic predecessor amid protests about the high cost of living. 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