**The Ministry of Labor of Panama announced the beginning of the minimum wage payment process for the agricultural sector**
The following 15 days in Panama, the establishment of a three-party commission, which will monitor the minimum agricultural wage, begins. The existing pillars — the employers' associations, the business sector and the Ministry of Labor — and the development of labor resources. This new development includes a full-time opening of the national trade union centers, which includes all the observations in the Ministry of Labor.
Official applications, the Ministry of Labor workers have been informed about this National Preparatory Company (Conep), the Tripartite Platform and other government organizations. They will receive detailed data and plan work with specific responsibilities.
Minister Jackeline Muñoz de Cedeño called for caution and not to create any expectations or speculation about the results of the company's work, checking that the economic situation is complicated and for employers, and for workers. "If for workers the situation is tense, then for employers it is not better. We need to find a balance and act with responsibility," — she said.
Her call to dialogue — this is a call to consensus, reflecting the economic reality of the country, independently ensuring the social security of workers and the stability of business. However, taking this company, the deadline with variable 2026, in cooperation with the Tripartite Code, which provides for the payment of the minimum agricultural wage twice a year.
The Ministry of Labor guarantees that the SMI will receive information from all the companies, which verifies the statement to the opening and the publication of the common processes.
In this initiative, it affects the slowness and the meaning of the question, which in each two-year cycle becomes the premise and the discussion in the community, especially in the conditions of the current economic and political instability.
