Wants to change the maximum income right away.
PUBLISHED: 14 Sep 2024 at 05: 11
The criticism has called for the Pheu Thai Party’s guaranteed 600-baht minimum wage to be implemented while criticizing the government’s labor scheme for omitting initiatives to improve labor skills.
During Friday’s last day of a joint parliament sitting, Sia Jampathong, an MP from the People’s Party ( PP ), said labour was not included in the government’s 10 most urgent policies.
During the election campaign, Mr. Sia remarked that Pheu Thai’s main promises were about labor plan. The group promised to drive for a minimum income goal of 600 ringgit, a minimum income of 25, 000 ringgit for new graduates, and various forms of labour rights protection.
He questioned whether these were just bare promises to get votes.
” Other than the 10, 000-baht handout scheme, I have n’t seen the government fulfil any of its promises to the labour force. Are they just being caring of businessmen or have they forgotten? Mr Sia asked.
He claimed that the current labour minister has n’t done anything to assist workers in the last year.
Mr Sia even provided information showing 1, 519 companies had been closed down, resulting in 41, 103 persons losing their jobs.
This is not a government’s responsibility to create more work, the government has said. In fact, some factories have been shut down and employees fired without proper settlement or safety.
He even made reference to the lack of coalition promotion initiatives and the decrease in labor union membership.
Mr. Sia questioned Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra about the promised 400 ringgit minimum wage increase, which is supposed to be applied to all regions and organizations.
The authorities blames the income committee whenever there is criticism of the fixed income. But when there is compliments, it claims it as its own achievement”, he said.
Another Women’s Party MP, Sahassawat Kumkong, claimed that the government lacked a solid plan for developing labor knowledge to help new sectors like semiconductors and soft power.
Without proper planning and synchronization between policies, budgets and execution, the development of employment skills was shop, leading to bulk unemployment and a reliance on experienced unusual labour, he argued.