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INDONESIA

Appendix X

Statutory provisions relating

to minimum wages

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

The Minister of Manpower, Transmigration and Cooperatives may, on the recommendation of the Head of the Regional Office and in view of Ministerial Decision No. 360/Kpts MEN/1974 and Ministerial Decision No. 982/Kpts/MEN/1974, determine the Minimum Wage Standard for daily and monthly workers in National and Foreign Private undertakings in a particular province.

KOREA (REPUBLIC OF)

Labour Standards Law, 1953

Article 34 (Minimum wage)

1.

The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs may, if necessary, fix the minimum wage for workers engaged in a work or occupation.

2.

In case the Ministry is to fix the minimum wage under the preceding paragraph concurrance of the Labour Committee shall be required.

MALAYSIA

Wages Council Ordinance 1947 and Regulations

Minimum wages are prescribed by regulations made under the Wages Council Ordinance, 1947 which is being revised. Officials of the Malaysian Labour Department have promised to provide the Hong Kong Government with a copy of the revised law when it becomes available..

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THE PHILIPPINES

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Labour Code of the Philippines 1974 (Third Edition, 1977)

Chapter II

Article 99 (Statutory minimum wages)

2

The minimum wage rates for agricultural and non-agricultural employees shall be those prescribed by law in force on the date this Code takes effect.

However,

the Secretary of Labour: may, to the extent to promote employment in severaly depressed areas, authorize