“Migrant workers risk missing out on Thai minimum wage rises”

Migrant workers play a vital role in Thailand as its population ages and its labor-intensive industries struggle to fill jobs but they often miss out on the remuneration they are entitled to and lack the voice to do anything about it, labor activists say…

Thailand’s minimum wage has been boosted twice this year and could be raised again but many employers simply don’t pass on raises to their migrant-worker staff…

Myanmar citizen Zin Nwe Oo, 29, works as a seamstress in a Thai factory making bags and is resigned to not getting the minimum but is still determined to help her family back home…

…she says she’s made below Thailand’s minimum wage for a decade….

…data is hard to come by given the huge numbers of undocumented workers…

…garment factories and plantations take advantage of the abundant cheap labor from Myanmar…

Some informal sectors, like agriculture, can pay as little as … one dollar, a day.

Some workers have complained and even taken their cases to court but are still waiting, years later, for a resolution…

…Migrant workers have no voice in the debate as they have no right to form unions...