Pheu Thai Target Thai Youth With Its 15,000 Thb Salary Scheme

[DP25]

It's unclear if government employees (eg. government school teachers) are even covered by it or if it is strictly only for the civilian sector of the job force.

I think the only clear thing is that no one is actually covered by this, as they have intention of actually implementing it if they manage to get power

[WinnieTheKhwai]

It's a pretty smart campaign angle though. And it's feasible to enforce, and doesn't cost government money. Plus the amounts are reasonable, 15K for graduates, 300 baht a day wage; that's pretty much what I pay the maid anyway right now.

The one question I have is if the amounts apply with the same amounts in any province of Thailand; clearly there are big regional differences in the cost of living, and salary levels.

15K in Bangkok really wouldn't be much of an increase, if at all. Upcountry it's probably an increase, especially if these are graduates from second tier universities and institutions.

Clearly those details can't be very well communicated on a bill board, but in concept it's a fair policy to advocate. It's socialist of course, and it's almost nice to see some parties (PTP in this case) fall more and more into a traditional political line of thinking, in this case socialism / social democracy.

(Sorry if this post disrupted the usual shouting match free-for-all.

[animatic]

It is easy to see who amongst us have never been a manager or had a company of their own, they celebrate ideas like this. Anyone who has every hired people knows how bad forced minimum salaries are.

I'm sure that Yingluck paid all of her 6000 AIS employees well over minimum wage. Also, her SC Asset employees (mostly construction) would have enjoyed their relatively high wages too.

No doubt 150 - 200 baht a day for risky work...

S.O.P. for Thailand construction workers.

[rubl]

that is not a Hugh Jump since in this country you must to be a really unlucky guy for getting a salary infirior than 12000 in you first job.My son got his BD in Business Admistration 2 years ago and since that he has been working for Nippon Express as a Shipping Manager with a salary of 30000 bat , and that prove that that new graduates will get a low or a high salary according to thair capabilities and for all those asking where that PTP is going to get the money to implement this policies i'm guessing that from the same place that abhist got the money to make hughs donations to japan, haiti ,china and many other while the thai people were suffering floods in the south.

It's normal for a government to make token donations in cash or goods to befriended countries when those suffer from disasters. These donations are taken from the normal budget without putting extra strain on it. Actually sometimes these donations seem so small that it's embarrassing

2010-01-20 "Thailand, embarrassed and ridiculed for its low donation to Haiti, offers more"

http://www.examiner....iti-offers-more

the fact that that is a normal practice doesn't mean that it is right,abhist is very hypocritical when he is sending money to japan(not in small quatities) while in his own country he has lots of people who had lost almost everything and the only smart thing that he cames to say was that they didn't have enough money in their budget for national emergencies so they can not help :hahhahhaha hilarious isn't it?

You can provide a link to what you say k. Abhisit's remark was, or are you just providing readers here with your opinion?

[geriatrickid]

Ahh, the wonderful claims of increased wages causing unemployment. The claims would have merit if there was a surplus of labour in Thailand. However, the trend is towards a shortage of labour. As any good free market capitalist or left wing labourite knows, labour shortages cause wages to rise. The workers that would benefit most from the increased wage proposal are in the service sector and this is the sector that is suffering the most from the shortage of skilled labour. Unskilled labour, the group that employs the Burmese and Cambodian neighbors would be unaffected by the wage proposal. I believe that an argument can be made that the wage proposal would stabilize the labour market for the skilled sector.

Surely, some of you read the labour department press releases. Thailand is an aging society. Follow the demographic road kids.

[whybother]

Ahh, the wonderful claims of increased wages causing unemployment. The claims would have merit if there was a surplus of labour in Thailand. However, the trend is towards a shortage of labour. As any good free market capitalist or left wing labourite knows, labour shortages cause wages to rise. The workers that would benefit most from the increased wage proposal are in the service sector and this is the sector that is suffering the most from the shortage of skilled labour. Unskilled labour, the group that employs the Burmese and Cambodian neighbors would be unaffected by the wage proposal. I believe that an argument can be made that the wage proposal would stabilize the labour market for the skilled sector.

Surely, some of you read the labour department press releases. Thailand is an aging society. Follow the demographic road kids.

If labour shortages will cause wage rises, then there is no need to set a minimum wage for graduates. Let supply and demand set them.

[BangnaBound]

“the minimumsalary guaranteed policy and a business fund to university students where thefirst institution will be the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce beforegoing elsewhere both in and outside of Bangkok”

This sounds like the only salary guarantee is that a newgraduate can get a 15,000 baht job at the University of Thai Chamber ofCommerce for an unknown length of time, before trying to get a real job. It doesn’tsound like this is necessarily a minimum wage that will be enforced on allcompanies.

[TAWP]

Ahh, the wonderful claims of increased wages causing unemployment. The claims would have merit if there was a surplus of labour in Thailand. However, the trend is towards a shortage of labour. As any good free market capitalist or left wing labourite knows, labour shortages cause wages to rise. The workers that would benefit most from the increased wage proposal are in the service sector and this is the sector that is suffering the most from the shortage of skilled labour. Unskilled labour, the group that employs the Burmese and Cambodian neighbors would be unaffected by the wage proposal. I believe that an argument can be made that the wage proposal would stabilize the labour market for the skilled sector.

Surely, some of you read the labour department press releases. Thailand is an aging society. Follow the demographic road kids.

Much like you other arguments, this one doesn't make sense however you would like to spin it.

If there is a shortage the wages will increase by themselves.

[ianbaggie]

Ahh, the wonderful claims of increased wages causing unemployment. The claims would have merit if there was a surplus of labour in Thailand. However, the trend is towards a shortage of labour. As any good free market capitalist or left wing labourite knows, labour shortages cause wages to rise. The workers that would benefit most from the increased wage proposal are in the service sector and this is the sector that is suffering the most from the shortage of skilled labour. Unskilled labour, the group that employs the Burmese and Cambodian neighbors would be unaffected by the wage proposal. I believe that an argument can be made that the wage proposal would stabilize the labour market for the skilled sector.

Surely, some of you read the labour department press releases. Thailand is an aging society. Follow the demographic road kids.

There is certainly NO shortage of labour in Thailand - would be interested to know where you got that idea from - unless you just made it up!! There IS however a skills shortage. Labour markets ANYWHERE in the world are partly controlled by price/wage setting through supply and demand. therefore the market in Thailand will always be what it is at any given time unless restrictions, aid is placeds on it by a Government - otherwise employers wouldn't find enough workers to carry out the work in their companies. The fact that workers are willing and able to work and companies are able to pay their wages shows that the wage rate is set right. Please provide a link for the labour department press releases which you mention - by the way, all credit to you for being able to read Thai,