Doubt over wage hikeIt remains unclear if workers will get a minimum wage hike mid year as previously expected, as the Bangkok Minimum Wage Sub-Committee meeting yesterday were told about affecting factors such as inflation and rising commodity prices.24 May 11 The Nation Sub-committee member Ammorn Chaowalit said meeting discussed the opinion survey of business operators after the wage hike earlier this year, which showed that them commented about impacts including the inflation rate that was 3.06 per cent increase in Bangkok and 3.27 per cent nation-wide. Ammorn said the Bangkok sub-committee didn't propose for a wage hike to the Central Wage Committee's meeting on June 2. Expressing sympathy to all sides affected by commodity price rising, the sub-committee wanted to see the wage rate according to work skills to be in effect from July 28 onwards, before discussing about the minimum wage hike, he added. Another sub-committee member Atthayuth Leeyavanija said that employers had complained that the previous hike caused them to pay additional Bt100,000 million in wages and he urged the government to keep the commodity price down. |
