The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has joined hands with the Cambodia Labour Ministry to help enhance the technical skills of the Labour Advisory Committee members in the country.
The Advisory Committee has been entrusted with the work of monitoring and analysing the minimum wages in Cambodia.
Heng Sour, Labour Ministry spokesman, said that the Government of Cambodia had followed and implemented minimum wage principles on the basis of evidence.
He said this at a workshop on Minimum Wage Monitoring in Cambodia held on 26 November 2018.
Sour said that the intent of creating minimum wage regulation was to ensure decent standards of living for workers and this workshop aims to enhance the technical skills of the Government so as to smoothly function the task of monitoring minimum wages.
The ILO Director for Indochina, Graeme Buckley, added that it was ILO’s job to protect workers against disproportionate minimum wages.
In October 2018, tripartite commission had fixed US $ 182 as the new minimum wage for garment and textile workers from 2019.
