Cambodia starts talks over industrial wage hikes for 2024


The garment, footwear and travel goods sector, the country's largest foreign currency earner, comprises some 1,100 factories and branches with around 750,000 workers. - PPP

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia's National Council on Minimum Wage (NCMW) on Wednesday started to negotiate the annual hike of monthly minimum wage for the garment, footwear and travel goods industry for 2024, according to an NCMW press statement.

At the meeting, the NCMW delivered key statistical updates on socioeconomic criteria to form the basis for the 2024 minimum wage talks, it said.

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