Statutory minimum wages
Territory
National
Regional
Industrial
Table 15 Minimum wages
Legislative provisions
Minimum wage fixing machinery
actually established
CONFIDENTIAL
Remarks
Hong Kong
Nil
Nil
Indonesia
Nil
For workers in various provinces e.g. Jambi:
Wage in cash
Rp. 350 per day for
single worker
Rp. 400 per day for
married worker Rp. 10,500 per month
for single worker Rp. 12,000 per month for married worker
Rice
1.2 kg/day for single
worker
1.4 kg/day for married
worker
15 kg/month for single
worker
30 kg/month for
married worker
Nil
For workers in various industrios e.g.
Construction: 435 Rupiah a day in
Jakarta.
Forestry:
1,250 Rupiah a day in South Sumatra
Textiles: 350 Rupiah a day in
Central Sumatra
Trade Boards Ordinance, 1940 (Chapter 63):
The Governor in Council may fix, by Gazette notification, minimum rates of wages for trades in which wages are unreasonably low.
Ministerial Decision
No. Kpts-57/DP/1975 on the fixing of a minimum wage standard for daily and monthly workers in national and foreign private undertakings
Nil
The Central Board of Wage Control is responsible for the fixing and revision of minimum wages.
No trade boards have ever been set up
Minimum wages are regarded as confidential information. He nce
it is doubtful if those rates have ever been applied.
Korea
(Republic
of)
Nil
Nil
Nil
Article 34 of the
Labour Standards Law
Nil
1953 makes it possible for the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to fix a minimum wage for
workers engaged in
a work or occupation.
No minimum wage has been fixed
so far although the issue is being herd pressed by the Federation of Korean Trade Unions. Meanwhile the Government) is taking administrative measures to ensure that wages in all industries are brought up to the level of at least 30,000 Won (HK$300) a month.