(04/03/2013)
Ministry of Labour holds a meeting to
educate officials from central and regional offices how to assess
labour demand and supply as well as impacts of the government’s 300 baht
daily minimum wage policy. The meeting is aimed at improving the
officials’ knowledge and understanding on how to correctly survey, store
and analyze data.
Mr. Poonsak Sethanandha, Deputy Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Labour,
said at the opening ceremony of the meeting that his ministry is among
the main agencies that are responsible to carry out the policy; so it is
necessary to prepare its officials to know how to correctly survey data
on wages, incomes, expenses, impacts of the policy on firms, labour
demand and labour shortages in provincial and macro levels.
Mr. Poonsak said the new minimum wage
could affect operational coast and cause layoffs and closure of
businesses, especially SMEs. It could also promote fair distribution of
income, increase purchasing power and reduce social problem stemming
from labour movement.
He said the data would help his ministry
analyze and prepare workforces to match with the demand in any given
economic situation and increase the country’s competitiveness ahead of
the formation of ASEAN Community in 2015.
“The survey of the data and the impacts
of the new minimum wage policy is an important mechanism. Officials from
central and regional agencies need to have correct knowledge and
understanding on how to survey data in order to obtain creditable and
correct information. They must plan, understand the objective of the
survey and know how to take sample, check and store the information. The
information will be forwarded to the Central Wage Committee so it could
work out assistance measures for firms that are affected by the
policy,” said the deputy permanent secretary of Ministry of Labour.
The meeting was aimed at helping
Ministry of Labour’s personnel prepare how to correctly collect and
store data and uses them to assess employment tendency and develop
appropriate workforce plan, given the current social and economic
conditions
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