New minimum wages are too low and need to be reviewed: PM

PM Srettha Thavisin is greeted by people during his visit to Kanchanaburi yesterday.//Photo : PM Facebook

The prime minister is not satisfied with the Wage Committee’s Friday decision on the new minimum wages in Thailand, saying that they are too low and promising a review.

Speaking to the media at the Pheu Thai party’s coordination centre in Kanchanaburi province yesterday, Srettha Thavisin said that the minimum wage increases, from Bt2-16, are too low while the cost of living is still increasing.

He noted that the Bt2-3 increase for the three southernmost provinces is insufficient to buy even a single egg.

He said that his government has been trying its best to reduce the hardships being suffered by low-income earners by cutting utility prices, tackling the informal debt problem and providing debt moratoria for farmers, but there are still many millions of people who depend…