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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.