Published on October 20, 2005

The Central Wage Committee is to raise the daily minimum wage for workers throughout Thailand, with pay raises scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2006.

“It has been a tradition to have pay raises [at the beginning of a new year],” the committee’s secretary, Petcharat Sin-uay, said yesterday.

She said an increase in the daily minimum wage implemented earlier this year had been introduced in response to rising living costs and petrol prices, so it would not affect the new year wage increase.

All central wage committees at provincial level will soon submit individual proposals for increases, she said.

“Some have already reached us. They ask for an increase between Bt1 and Bt6 a day.”

Petcharat said she believed that with the new year raise, the minimum wage will increase to Bt233 a day – the amount labour leaders have been demanding.

The Nation

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