ILO calls on global garment buyers to help absorb Cambodia’s new minimum wage

5 January 2015
The Cambodia Herald
Aid and development / Labor / Labor policy and administration
International Labour Organization (ILO)

Global garment brands who source their products from Cambodia should play a part in helping the industry absorb the new minimum wage of US$ 128 per month, according to experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO). The new minimum wage for the approximately half-a-million workers in Cambodia’s garment and footwear industry came into effect on 1 January 2015. As a result, average wages (which include bonuses and overtime) in the garment industry are likely to rise from US$ 183 to US$217 per month, according to estimates made by the ILO’s Country Office for Thailand, Cambodia and Lao PDR. …

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