Cambodia PM: Wage may be too high
After weeks of occasionally tumultuous negotiations saw 2016’s minimum wage for garment workers raised to $140 earlier this month, Prime Minister Hun Sen warned on 19 October that the new rate could cause factories to flee Cambodia, even though he was credited with personally intervening to push the number higher.
“In Myanmar, workers’ wages increased to $67, Laos is at about $80, Bangladesh’s special economic zones receive $75, India and Nepal are still very low, but in Cambodia, the wage will reach $140 in a few months,” the premier said during a speech at the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh on 19 October.
