Kampuchea Raises The Minimum Monthly Wage Of Clothing Workers By 11 Dollars.

　　 Cambodia The labor department voted to raise the minimum monthly wages of clothing workers by 11 dollars. Compared with the demands of several major trade unions, this figure is too small, so workers will have a massive strike next week.

Last week, the labor advisory board, official representatives, factory representatives and trade union leaders decided to raise the minimum wage by 5 dollars. They also approved a plan to merge the current $6 living allowance into the basic wage, so the minimum wage will increase from $50 per month to $61.

However, new Wage standard It is likely that it will not be implemented until October, until 2014. The government, workers and trade unions have agreed on this.

But some union leaders have asked for a minimum wage of 70-93 dollars. For example, CheaMony, the leader of the Kingdom of Cambodia workers' free trade union, warned that workers would start a 3 day strike starting in July 13th if the government did not consider raising the minimum wage to $70. As last week's meeting decided to raise the minimum wage to $61, Mony confirmed that workers would go on strike.

　　 Cambodia Van Sou Ieng, President of GMAC, a garment manufacturer, said that if Kampuchea's minimum wage exceeds $61, investors will suspend investment plans for Kampuchea.

Supplement:

According to South Korea's "North Korea economy" report, the Fair Trade Commission of Korea announced the latest commodity list of price monitoring on 29, and the price monitoring object increased from the original 11 commodities to 30 kinds.

The 19 new products include 5 kinds of digital products, such as imported game consoles, digital cameras, LCD/LED TV, netbooks, iPhone phones and so on. Mineral water, ice cream, fried chicken, chocolate, cheese and other 5 kinds of food, children's clothing, baby carriage, shampoo, essence, baby lotion and other 5 kinds of daily necessities, as well as 4 kinds of health care products such as Johnson, Guo Minshuang (atopyCream), disposable soft contact lenses, digital blood pressure meter, etc.

Reported that the above 19 commodities are newly included in the price monitoring target because these products are bringing new consumption patterns to people, becoming closer and closer to people's lives, while their selling prices in Korea are higher than those in foreign countries.