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Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan on Wednesday insisted that “no one on the central government payroll makes less than $150,” pushing back against claims the Boakai administration has failed to enforce the Decent Work Act’s minimum wage mandate.<\/p>\n
Ngafuan, speaking at a press briefing with select journalists, said confusion stemmed from deductions that reduce take-home pay but not gross salaries.<\/p>\n
“We can categorically say that no one on the central government payroll is making less than $150…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan on Wednesday insisted that “no one on the central government payroll makes less than $150,” pushing back against claims the Boakai administration has failed to enforce the Decent Work Act’s minimum wage mandate. Ngafuan, speaking at a press briefing with select journalists, said confusion stemmed from deductions that reduce take-home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,5934,7829,4712,1107,5941,257,8851,254],"class_list":["post-205925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-finance","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-payroll","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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