{"id":469327,"date":"2025-05-28T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/labor-minister-guarantees-transparent-delivery-of-christmas-bonus-to-port-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:44:18","slug":"labor-minister-guarantees-transparent-delivery-of-christmas-bonus-to-port-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/labor-minister-guarantees-transparent-delivery-of-christmas-bonus-to-port-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Minister guarantees transparent delivery of Christmas bonus to port workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Azua. \u2013<\/strong> The Minister of Labor, Eddy Olivares<\/a>, after leading an event held at the Bartolom\u00e9 Olegario P\u00e9rez sports center in Azua, which was attended by hundreds of port workers and local community leaders, assured that the Government will deliver the full Christmas bonus and will not allow the arbitrary and abusive discounts that some unions traditionally make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivares described the retention of up to 4,500 pesos of the state contribution by some unions as \u201cunreasonable and unacceptable,\u201d which he considered detrimental to employees, and was emphatic in warning that \u201cunder no circumstances will discounts be allowed to be applied to this benefit, the result of the effort and dedication of all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that sense, he stated that the decision to deliver the bonus without cuts had already been made before the recent court ruling, which further reinforces its execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThat money is for you, the workers, and no type of abusive discount will be allowed by any institution or association,\u201d<\/strong> he stated.<\/p>\n\n\nThe Minister of Labor <\/a>also announced that strict and transparent verification mechanisms will be implemented to guarantee the legality of each beneficiary and ensure transparency in the process of delivering the country’s first legal bonus, in compliance with Law 199-02 and Resolution No. 002-2018, signed by the ministries of Finance, Labor, and the Dominican Port Authority. This measure benefits more than 5,000 port workers in Azua and nearly 32,000 nationwide, who will receive an amount of 7,676.25 pesos without having a portion taken away.\n\n\n

Olivares took the opportunity to reaffirm that unionization is a legitimate right, but that unions must always act within the legal framework and without abusing the rights of their members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Unions will not be subject to interference, but they must act with reasonableness and respect for the laws,” said Olivares, while urging workers to protect “this historic achievement with transparency, justice, and active participation in each port.”
During the event, the deputy Julio C\u00e9sar Beltr\u00e9 M\u00e9ndez, who has accompanied the port workers in favor of the full delivery of the bonuses, thanked the response of the Ministry of Labor and President Luis Abinader, highlighting that the intervention was the result of an informal conversation in Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI ran into Eddy Olivares by chance, and he told me: \u2018Call the people together to tell them that they are not alone, that they have the support of the President and the Ministry of Labor\u2019\u201d,<\/strong> he recounted.<\/p>\n\n\nThe Minister of Labor, Eddy Olivares, led the ceremony, accompanied by high authorities of the institution, including the Vice Minister Juli\u00e1n Mateo; the advisor on Inspection, Juan Ram\u00f3n Ventura; the representative of the Inspection area, Yuri Ruiz Villalona; and the minister’s assistant, Humberto Ramos, among other important personalities.\n\nThe Civil, Commercial, and Labor Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of Azua, through sentence no. 0478-2025-SSEN-00010, partially upheld an Amparo Action filed by port workers of this province, after considering that their fundamental rights have been violated by the undue withholding of part of the Christmas bonus.\n\nIn that decision, the court determined that the exclusion of some workers from the payment of the aforementioned state contribution, without having been given the opportunity to defend themselves, constitutes a violation of due process.\n\nFurthermore, the fact that the union directives, at the time of managing the bonus payment, withheld sums of money under the allegation of a mandatory fee of RD$100.00 per union affiliation, against the fundamental right of association enshrined in Article 47 of the Dominican Constitution, was considered an aggravating factor.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Azua. \u2013 The Minister of Labor, Eddy Olivares, after leading an event held at the Bartolom\u00e9 Olegario P\u00e9rez sports center in Azua, which was attended by hundreds of port workers and local community leaders, assured that the Government will deliver the full Christmas bonus and will not allow the arbitrary and abusive discounts that some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":469328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40878,19373,40825,40442,40879],"class_list":{"0":"post-469327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dominican-news","8":"tag-christmas-bonus","9":"tag-eddy-olivares","10":"tag-minister","11":"tag-ministry-of-labor","12":"tag-transparency"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-28-at-8.27.34-AM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Y5N","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-28-at-8.27.34-AM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}