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Cambodia to begin talks over 2017 wage hike for garment sector next month

Xinhua, June 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Cambodia will commence to discuss the annual increase of monthly minimum wage for the garment and footwear sector for 2017 in July, said a Labor Ministry statement on Monday.

The negotiations will be carried out by a tripartite working group, which comprises representatives of the Labor Ministry, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia, and the trade unions, the statement said.

The final result of the talks will be released in early October and the new wage will take effect from January 1, 2017, it said.

Garment and footwear industry, the kingdom's largest foreign currency earner, consists of 1,007 factories with about 754,000 workers, according to the Labor Ministry.

The sector exported products worth 7 billion U.S. dollars last year, accounting for about 80 percent of the country's total export.

Currently, the minimum wage for the sector is 140 U.S. dollars per month. Enditem