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Honduras's 2026–2027 wage agreement includes a safeguard clause that triggers an automatic minimum-wage adjustment if year-on-year inflation in December surpasses 7%, protecting workers' purchasing power against rising prices.

Honduran labor law requires employers to pay double salary to workers laboring on September 15 (Independence Day) and grant them a compensatory rest day during the same week.

Cohep president Anabel Gallardo said legal and economic uncertainty is a major barrier to attracting investment and formal employment, citing losses in the power sector, flaws in part-time labor law, and the need for job creation to retain Hondurans rather than rely on migration and remittances.

Honduras's business community will present Congress with reforms to the Partial Employment Law by late August, seeking to ease hiring rules and expand job opportunities, particularly in call centers and digital-economy sectors.

Honduras's Part-Time Employment Law, approved in March 2026 with promised creation of 40,000 jobs, has generated only 59 registered contracts as of June, prompting officials and ruling-party lawmakers to acknowledge the law has failed to meet expectations.

The president of Tegucigalpa's Chamber of Commerce and Industries says Honduras's newly approved part-time employment law is a step forward but contains ambiguities that limit its effectiveness, and urges government, Congress, and stakeholders to form a dialogue table to strengthen and clarify the law through consensus.