Myanmar workers demonstrate for higher minimum wage
Source: AP
YANGON, Myanmar -- Several hundred workers in Myanmar staged a peaceful demonstration Sunday to demand that a new daily minimum wage be set higher than proposed.
The factory workers protesting in a northern suburb of Yangon, the country's largest city, want the daily minimum wage to be set at 4,000 kyat ($3.54) rather than the 3,600 kyat ($3.18) proposed by the National Minimum Wage Committee last month following prolonged negotiations between the government, employers and employees.
The current daily minimum wage is 3,000 kyat ($2.65). Small businesses employing fewer than 15 employees are not affected.
Factory owners say a wage hike would affect their ability to operate, and some Chinese and Korean-owned garment factories have threatened to shut down if it is implemented.
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