PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy
says his National Rescue Party will quadruple minimum salaries in the
public sector if his National Rescue Party wins elections in July.
A future government led by the party "will stop predatory corruption, which will allow it to raise the minimum salary for civil servants, police and soldiers to one million riel ($250) a month," he said on the party website this week.
Details were not available on how a National Rescue Party government would stop corruption to raise the minimum wage, currently $61 a month in the private sector.
Nor were the inflationary implications of such a drastic measure addressed.
The government of the ruling Cambodian People's Party has already called for an increase in minimum salaries to stem an outflow of workers to Thailand. Some unions are now calling for minimum wages to be doubled.
A future government led by the party "will stop predatory corruption, which will allow it to raise the minimum salary for civil servants, police and soldiers to one million riel ($250) a month," he said on the party website this week.
Details were not available on how a National Rescue Party government would stop corruption to raise the minimum wage, currently $61 a month in the private sector.
Nor were the inflationary implications of such a drastic measure addressed.
The government of the ruling Cambodian People's Party has already called for an increase in minimum salaries to stem an outflow of workers to Thailand. Some unions are now calling for minimum wages to be doubled.
Sam Rainsy, a former investment banker, is believed to be living in France to avoid convictions on charges of forgery and uprooting markers along the border with Vietnam.
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