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Minimum Wage Promises Remain Unfulfilled as Employees Toil for Less

May 3 , 2025
By Ahmed T. Abdulkadir

Six years after the labour law called for a Wage Board and nearly a century after the country first toyed with wage setting, the floor that would protect millions of low-income workers is still missing. The Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU) has been petitioning for a national minimum wage longer than mo...

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