PHOTO: POST TODAYThirty minutes is as much as Lek Jittra, a 30-year-old factory worker, can manage for her lunch break. If she hits the daily target, she gets double the payment of the regular daily wage. For nearly two decades before the hike, the wage rate was either frozen or even lowered at some points -- this in spite of the steady rise of living costs seen across the country. Labour wages have barely budged, with only five baht added to Ms Jittra's daily wage over the past four years. According to a 2015 figure of the National Statistic Office, more than 3.7 million people work in the manufacturing sector and factories, many of which receive a minimum wage rate.

Source: Bangkok Post October 29, 2017 00:45 UTC