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Home » News from Thailand » Proposal to increase minimum daily wage in Thailand by 2 to 10 baht
Proposal to increase minimum daily wage in Thailand by 2 to 10 baht
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The provincial committees that deal with the height of the minimum daily wage, have proposed an increase from 2 to 10 baht for this year. The increase is to take effect on April 1.
Only, next month, the government and employers' and workers' committees still have to approve the increases.
Permanent Secretary Jarin of the Ministry of Labor denies the rumors that a national minimum daily wage of 360 will be introduced (now a minimum daily wage is set per province). According to him, this is not possible because of differences in economic growth of provinces.
Source: Bangkok Post
Will have to increase more in the future.
My experience is that everything is getting more expensive and people need more money to buy the same thing.
I doubt whether the economy is really growing as fast as the numbers lead us to believe, everywhere you go is “SALE” and everywhere they are peddling cars at 0% interest. MG recently gave a discount of 100.000 Thb on a car, and you don't do that out of luxury because you sell so much. Ok other brands stunt with the price.
The first reaction in Belgium would be “there are definitely elections again.”
Next would be, equally everywhere, “solidarity between the regions”. The richer ones should just contribute for the poorer ones. And if it is not possible, there will be a strike; This has been the custom lately.
@ Daniel VL In Belgium, going on strike is anything but a habit, certainly not in the private sector, nor in most governments. No one likes to lose wages, especially not due to strikes. Exceptions are some public companies where a specific trade union dynamic promotes strikes.
Recently, social dialogue broke down and there were large-scale strikes. The most important factor in the failing social dialogue and driver for the broad willingness to strike is the fact that corporate profits have risen sharply, but that this mainly goes to the shareholders and too little to the employees. Little extra in the pay pocket and little extra decent full-time jobs extra.
The tax reform provides extra euros in the pay pocket, but this is not covered from a budgetary point of view. After the elections in May, a budget gap of around 7 billion euros must be closed. The wage-earners are already seeing the storm coming. Little or no real wage growth in the coming years and, in the long term, a further erosion of social security, in particular pensions and health insurance.
No one just goes on strike without a valid reason. Striking costs money, also for the strikers.
In Thailand I hardly hear or read anything about strikes. How does that actually work?
There are plenty of Cambodians and people from Laos ready to work for less!
A striking employee can be fired immediately without further consequences for the employer.
And not only that, what do you think of the impact on the economy if wages were to increase by 30 to 40%. Thailand could lose a lot of work in my opinion. Factories are quickly opened in neighboring countries, where wages are even lower. The investors don't care if someone can get by with a little luxury or just can't make ends meet. All that matters is their profit.
The same as happened in Western Europe 40 years ago, alees moved to Eastern Europe and Western Europe for a long time in a recession, high unemployment, etc.
Nonsense. In 2012, Yingluck (remember her?) raised the minimum wage by 45%, from 215 baht to 300 baht, which was an election promise. The economy continued to do quite well.
Bangkok: thousands of workers on strike against illegal fishing regulations
That was in 2015, dear Mark. And in the past there has been quite a lot of strikes in Thailand.
Only 40% of all workers are in the formal sector. Only 5% of them are union members. There are strict legal provisions where unions are concerned. Umbrella unions of, for example, all industries are verboten.
Moderator: Please keep the discussion to Thailand.
A wage increase from 2 to 10 bath for the minimum daily wage.
The Thai minima will now finally be able to kick in a door.
The economy will boom.
Open the champagne or rather the SangSom bottles.
I am sure that this daily maximum increase of 10 baths will evaporate like snow in the sun, just for the daily needs of life.
Don't make any effort for the population at all.
Jan Beute.
Everything must be viewed in its perspective. 10THB/d is peanuts, but it does mean +3%.
How long has it been since wages went up by 3% in the Netherlands and Belgium? I am not talking about a wage increase as a result of an index adjustment.
A wage increase automatically means that all products with the same figure will become more expensive, which is called inflation.
For example, gives 100THB/d more = +30%, yes at least that is quite a lot… but everything will also become 30% more expensive and not only the luxury items, also the daily essential products. Then what did you win? NOTHING
I have absolutely nothing against the fact that the Thai people would get better pay for their work, but they should get something concrete and improve.
Let yourself realize the impact of such a daily wage increase. An optimistic increase of 5 baht per day means if you work 30 days a month, 150 baht per month.
Recently, the deliberations of the relevant committee were reported in Bangkok Bank. Among other things, it was reported that workers from neighboring countries had been asked to be reimbursed for the re-entry payment of 2000 baht annually for visits to family and relatives at home. This has been declined.
Let that sink in: you barely earn anything, maybe a pay rise of several bahts a day, and need at least 6 days of work to purchase your re-entry in this country.
As an April Fool's joke, this could be a hoot. When will people finally make decisions with reason and ensure that a good social system is put in place? Sometimes this is a crying shame. Being born in Thailand is actually a punishment. If you don't have children, you can work until you die.