Delegates at a two-day Minimum Wage Board Workshop in Kakata, Margibi County, have released a seven-count resolution, recommending a twenty percent increment in the monthly wages of private sector workers, both in the formal and informal sectors.
A Labour Ministry press release issued in Monrovia on May 19, 2025, states that “Currently, the minimum wage for the two categories of private sector workers stands at USD143.00 and USD91.00 respectively.
The release outlined other counts of the Kakata Resolution of The Minimum Wage Board Workshop participants as: creation of conducive workplace for workers, reinforcement of regular inspection by Labour Ministry Inspectors and Minimum Wage Board, regular conduct of series of workshops, symposia and seminars for the Tripartite Constituents and a six-month timeline for the implementation of the counts of the resolution; among others.
The delegates are the two-day Minimum Wage Board workshop also urged some officials of the Ministry, allegedly engaged in frequent interactions with business centers and investment conglomerates to immediately desist as this tends to hinder the work of Labour Inspectors.
The gathering, according to the release, brought together representatives of major workers unions, executives of the Liberia Labour Congress (LLC), members of the Minimum Wage Board and the Liberia Chamber of Commerce, among others. Earlier in his opening statement to delegates, Labour Minister Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah, Sr., through the Assistant Minister for Administration Rufus Freeman, acknowledged the low wage factor confronting private sector workers in the wake of rising living costs and urged delegates to promulgate relevant strategies in alleviating the problems.
The National Secretary General of the LLC, Michael Blamah, and other trade union leaders called for regular meetings of the Minimum Wage Board to address concerns of the private sector workers across the country. Meanwhile, the adapted resolution will be presented to Labour Minister Kruah by the Director of the Minimum Wage Board, Jerome Kollie. .
