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Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Monday that the timing was not right for a hike in salaries and wages, as the country cannot bear the additional financial burden.

There is a direct corelation between education and a person's ability to earn, according to a survey by the National Statistical Office of Thailand.

Around 10 per cent of low-income Thais fell below the poverty threshold in 2019, according to the latest report by the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).

The Department of Internal Trade has been monitoring impacts on the prices of products following the government’s announcement on Friday (December 6) that the legal minimum wage will be increased from Bt325 to Bt331 per day on January 1, 2020, Whichai Phochanakij, the department’s director general, revealed.

An increase in the minimum wage by Bt5 to Bt6 will neither hike the cost liability for entrepreneurs nor increase inflation, Anusorn Tamajai, the director of the Economic and Business Research Centre for Reform at Rangsit University's Institute of Economics, said yesterday (December 8).

The National Wage Committee announced on Friday (December 6) that it will raise the minimum wage by Bt6 for nine provinces and Bt5 for the rest of Thailand, Suthi Sukosol, Permanent Secretary of Labour, said.

The owner of a barber shop in Vientiane could be the first Lao woman to publicly declare competition with the growing number of foreign-owned hair stylists.

LEADING economists and manufacturers have warned that an increase in the minimum daily wage, as pledged by major political parties in the run-up to the general election in March in response to calls from labour groups, will dampen the competitiveness of the Thai economy.

A MAJORITY OF Thai workers want the minimum daily wage set at a flat rate of Bt400 once the new government is in place. But, fearing a hike in prices of necessities because of the move, they also called for price controls, a recent survey by Bangkok Poll revealed yesterday.

EXPORT companies in more than 40 provinces are voicing loud opposition to plans of raising the minimum daily wage.

As labourers called for the daily minimum wage of Bt360 nationwide, Ministry of Labour permanent secretary Jarin Chakkaphark on Thursday said that the Central Wage Committee will set the new rate before March 30, to become effective from April 1.

The US Justice Department called Thursday for a unified government approach to fighting meddling in the upcoming mid-term elections.