LABOUR
AYUTTHAYA : The provincial industrial council wants a review of the eight baht increase in the daily minimum wage for workers in the province, which is seen as insufficient to offset the rising cost of living. Council president Tossapol Wangsilabut said the issue will be discussed at talks this week with employers, labour unions and the Labour Ministry.
He said the increase was not enough and did not correspond with the workers' actual cost of living.
Ayutthaya is home to more than 1,600 factories and high-tech plants employing more than 300,000 workers. The Central Wage Committee agreed on Friday to raise daily minimum wages across the country from June by between two to 11 baht.
The increase in Bangkok and nearby provinces will be nine baht, with the minimum wage rising to 203 baht. The eight baht increase for Ayutthaya takes the daily minimum to 173 baht. The biggest raise, 11 baht, lifts the daily rate in Chiang Rai to 157 baht.
Mr Tossapol said the cost of living in Ayutthaya is as high as in Bangkok and workers in the province deserved to get at least the same increment as the capital.
''Workers here have demanded the same raise awarded in Bangkok.
''Even Saraburi, Ayutthaya's neighbouring province, is getting a bigger raise from 170 to 179 baht a day,'' said Mr Tossapol. Employers' views would be taken into account, he said, to see what increase the factory owners, mostly from Japan and Taiwan, could afford.
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