Wages do not compute: ILO

30 July 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Government / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training / Social development
Dave Welsh / ILO / International Labour Organization / Labour Advisory Committee / Ministry of Labour / Solidarity Center

NGOs say the Ministry of Labour’s use of its own method for determining the garment industry’s minimum wage is risking a repeat of the tensions that exploded in violent protests in January, when authorities killed at least five people. More than six months after the Labour Ministry commissioned the International Labour Organization to help set a formula to calculate the garment sector’s minimum wage, the advice has not been heeded, ILO national project coordinator Tun Sophorn said. …

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