{"id":95191,"date":"2005-11-04T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a5155a8b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2005-11-04T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T00:39:00","slug":"a5155a9f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a5155a9f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Rota project workers to get federal minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers who will be part of two major construction projects in Rota will receive a minimum wage of $6.25 per hour, in accordance with a directive that took effect at the start of 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will not just be paid the federal minimum wage of $5.15, but $6.25 per hour,&#8221; said Lt. Gov. Diego T. Benavente.<\/p>\n<p>He represented the administration in the groundbreaking ceremonies for the $8.7-million extension of the Rota International airport and the $4.6-million renovation of the Rota Health Center.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the minimum wage rate in the Commonwealth is $3.05 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2003, Gov. Juan N. Babauta issued Directive 228 requiring a $5.75 hourly wage for those working on capital improvement projects.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta later amended this policy by issuing Directive 241, which raised the wage for workers on capital improvement projects to $6.25 per hour. (Agnes E. Donato)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers who will be part of two major construction projects in Rota will receive a minimum wage of $6.25 per hour, in accordance with a directive that took effect at the start of 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}