Cambodia raises minimum wage for garment, footwear sectors to 182 USD for 2019

 

Cambodian garment workers leave a factory for a lunch break in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Oct. 5, 2018. The Cambodian government on Friday set a new monthly minimum wage for the country's multi-billion-dollar garment and footwear industries at 182 U.S. dollars for 2019, up 7 percent from the current 170 U.S. dollars, Labor Minister Ith Samheng announced. (Xinhua/Phearum)