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Entry wages backed by bosses, workers

Employer and employee representatives want the minimum wage to be scrapped and replaced with an entry-wage system.

The representatives made their call during a seminar which looked at how to develop workers' potential and boost productivity in the industrial sector to accommodate the rise in the minimum daily wage, to at least 300 baht a day.

Increases in the minimum wage will take effect on April 1.

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Writer: Penchan Charoensuthipan
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  • Discussion 1 : 09/02/2012 at 09:08 AM1

    Increasing automatic wages based on length of service should also be scrapped and replaced by assessments based on productivity and skills with perhaps another component being linked to progressively upgrading skills.

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