Sunday, June 1, 2008 (Dhaka)
Indo-Asian News Service
Indian workers employed in the garment manufacturing sector get the highest wage among South Asians while Bangladesh workers get the lowest, a study published in Dhaka says.
Indian garment industry workers get the highest wage at 51 US cents per hour. The average hourly wage of a garment worker is $0.51 in India, $0.44 in Indonesia, $0.43 in Sri Lanka, $0.38 in Vietnam, $0.37 in Pakistan and $0.33 in Cambodia, says Global Apparel Manufacturing Labour Cost Update 2008, prepared by US-consulting house Jassin-O'Rourke Group.
Bangladeshi workers are at the bottom. At 22 US cents per hour, a Bangladeshi worker gets a fourth of the 86 US cents that his Chinese counterpart takes home.
The study quoted Dhaka's labour leaders as observing that the Bangladeshi workers were being deprived while factory owners claimed they could not make much profit because of low payments from the importers.
''Tales of miserable wages for Bangladeshi garment workers are not fresh any more,'' said Nazma Akter, a Bangladeshi labour leader, who represents the Garment Workers Unity Forum, a newspaper said.
Indian garment industry workers get the highest wage at 51 US cents per hour. The average hourly wage of a garment worker is $0.51 in India, $0.44 in Indonesia, $0.43 in Sri Lanka, $0.38 in Vietnam, $0.37 in Pakistan and $0.33 in Cambodia, says Global Apparel Manufacturing Labour Cost Update 2008, prepared by US-consulting house Jassin-O'Rourke Group.
Bangladeshi workers are at the bottom. At 22 US cents per hour, a Bangladeshi worker gets a fourth of the 86 US cents that his Chinese counterpart takes home.
The study quoted Dhaka's labour leaders as observing that the Bangladeshi workers were being deprived while factory owners claimed they could not make much profit because of low payments from the importers.
''Tales of miserable wages for Bangladeshi garment workers are not fresh any more,'' said Nazma Akter, a Bangladeshi labour leader, who represents the Garment Workers Unity Forum, a newspaper said.
5 comments:
Vote for Change People! Unless you're happy with 33 pennies per hour, a bag of salt, a 22.5kg of rice, then GO AHEAD AND VOTE FOR CPP.
IS that the right direction oh my LORd IRI how much you got pay from HUN SEN please don't hurt our KHMER people any more , HUN SEN MONEY is a blood money please don't accept it.
KHMER PEOPLE
I told you before and I will tell you again that for Cambodia to have a middle class population the Cambodian government must support the right of Cambodian workers to form labor union to demand a living wage or a better wage and to demand the right of the worker not to work as slave labor under any working condition!
The time has come for HUN SEN government to respect the LABOR UNION OF CAMBODIA NOW if he wants to see the positive change in Cambodia!
Noope, we just have to bring in more jobs. That is all. Nothing else is needed.
Bring more jobs to Cambodia won't help create the middle working class population in Cambodia!
Cambodia attracts too many unwanted job, slave labor jobs, and very low paying job which no country wanted! It seems that AH HUN SEN government lack the creativity to create job for dirt poor Cambodian people! If AH HUN SEN government continues to depend on the foreigners to create job for dirt poor Cambodian people and Cambodia will continue to suffer the way it is right now and soon there is a point of no return!
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