OPINION

Minimum wage hike's unintended outcome

News, Sutapa Amornvivat, Published on 20/09/2017

» A few weeks ago, a coalition of labour unions demanded more than a doubling of Thailand's minimum wage from 300 baht a day now to 700 by 2018. The proposed number aims to meet living costs, high enough to support two family members, assuming an inflation rate of 3% a year.