FACING WAGE HIKES IN 2016, ASEAN GARMENT MANUFACTURERS TRY LIFTING PRODUCTIVITY VIA AMBITIOUS TRAINING PROGRAMMES
December 1st, 2015
MANY garment manufacturers in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) block will have to cope with raises to the minimum wages in 2016. The move comes as ASEAN launches its Economic Community (ASEAN EC) on December 31, easing labour movement across the region. This might push manufacturers into supporting more official national wage rises, to hold onto trained staff who could potentially emigrate. Indeed, minimum wage movements remain typically a major factor in the determination of salaries also for south-east Asian factories’ ...
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