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Mon, 07/11/2011 - 14:50
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Thai employers beg for gradual wage hike
BANGKOK, July 11 (TNA) – Employers’ representatives, who were members of the National Wage Committee, opposed the Pheu Thai Party’s policy to raise the minimum wage to 300 baht per day nationwide, saying that it would seriously hurt private sector.
The National Wage Committee said after its meeting Monday that the wage hike policy should initially be applied in provinces with the highest minimum wage namely Bangkok, Bangkok ‘ five adjacent provinces and Phuket Province.
According to the Panel, the planned wage would roughly equal to a 40 percent increase of the current wage level in these provinces.
Nevertheless, the employers’ representatives, who were the member of the wage committee, opposed the move, saying that private sector would need more time to adjust to the wage policy. They proposed the wage be raised in gradual steps in line with the economic situations and the inflation level.
They also called on the new government to offer some other assistance measures, other than a corporate tax reduction if it still insisted to implement the new wage policy.
In a related development, the Permanent Secretary for Labour Ministry Somkiat Chayasriwong reaffirmed that some 50,000 legal migrant workers, who were working in Thailand under government-to-government Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs), would also enjoy the wage increment if the new wage policy was implemented. (TNA)
The National Wage Committee said after its meeting Monday that the wage hike policy should initially be applied in provinces with the highest minimum wage namely Bangkok, Bangkok ‘ five adjacent provinces and Phuket Province.
According to the Panel, the planned wage would roughly equal to a 40 percent increase of the current wage level in these provinces.
Nevertheless, the employers’ representatives, who were the member of the wage committee, opposed the move, saying that private sector would need more time to adjust to the wage policy. They proposed the wage be raised in gradual steps in line with the economic situations and the inflation level.
They also called on the new government to offer some other assistance measures, other than a corporate tax reduction if it still insisted to implement the new wage policy.
In a related development, the Permanent Secretary for Labour Ministry Somkiat Chayasriwong reaffirmed that some 50,000 legal migrant workers, who were working in Thailand under government-to-government Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs), would also enjoy the wage increment if the new wage policy was implemented. (TNA)
