Media Should Verify Reports to Preclude Rumors and Avoid Misleading the Public

While no wage minimum rate has been set so far, a working group, including the Ministries of Finance, Manpower and S...

  Media Should Verify Reports to Preclude Rumors and Avoid Misleading the Public  While no wage minimum rate has been set so far, a working group, including the Ministries of Finance, Manpower and Social Solidarity, is now designing a new structure of wages ensuring social justice, said a high-ranking official source of the Ministry of Finance, dismissing as groundless a statement made by the Undersecretary of the Central Agency for Organization and Administration (CAOA) to the effect that the government had set a minimum wage rate. The source also denied reports published on Thursday on writing off defaulting farmers' debts. Some newspapers and other media organs used to publish or broadcast inaccurate information and data, attributing them to official sources, claiming to have had an exclusive. Nothing could be further from the truth, the source indicated. Circulating inaccurate news creates confusion, spreads rumors and misleads public opinion, he noted. News should be verified and the concerned officials should be contacted for authentication before publishing, he stressed. (Source: Ministry of Finance)