THE WAGE INDICATOR FOUNDATION

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THE WAGE INDICATOR FOUNDATION

• MINIMUM WAGE CAMPAIGNS MEUSALARIO/MYWAGE

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• The Wage Indicator Foundation(WIF) owns the Wage
  Indicator concept.
• WIF is a non profit organisation, dedicated to
  labor market transparency by providing accurate
  wage and wage related information.

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• The mission statement for WIF
• Share and compare wage information. Contribute
  to a transparent labor market. Provide free,
  accurate wage data through salary checks on
  national websites. Collect wage data through web
  surveys.

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• The public contributes to scientific information
  gathering, and scientists in return provide
  information free of charge to the public.
• WIF was established under Dutch Law on 17th
  September 2003 and is a joint initiative of FNV
  (Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions), the
  University of Amsterdam/AIS (Institute of
  Advanced Labour Studies) and career website
  Monster who make up the board of supervisors.

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• WIF has been running a Minimum Wage awareness
  campaign on line on its web page www.mywage.org
  in over 59 countries worldwide.
• Recently in 2009 WIF piloted the off line version
  of the campaign in Mozambique Meusalario
  campaign and in 2010 launched the Zambia MW
  campaign followed by the South Africa campaign
  making a total of three countries working with
  the Campaign.

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• The primary objective of the MW campaigns is to
  raise awareness on existing minimum wages and
  decent work. In turn these efforts are intended
  to enhance existing efforts in ensuring workers
  gain full information of their rights to decent
  work and payment of the minimum wage as well as
  to check that the mechanism of revision of the MW
  is done at stakeholder level in order to be
  meaningful to its intended recipients.

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• Both the offline and on line version of the
  Campaign in the three countries expects to meet
  an audience of over 6000 people per country
  through the use of print and electronic media as
  well as inter face.
• The campaign also utilises other mediums such as
  brochures, flyers, posters etc to spread
  information on MW and decent work .

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• Lastly, in terms of administration, the three
  country campaigns are managed by country
  coordinators who report directly to WIF and are
  tasked with the responsibility of planning,
  executing and monitoring of the campaign strategy
  in an effective and efficient manner.

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• THANK YOU!