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Tue, 11/11/2008 - 15:00
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No plan to lay off garment workers
No plan to lay off garment workers
(KPL) The Lao Garment Association confirmed yesterday that its members are not planning to retrench any garment workers in Laos even though there is already a slight decrease in orders from foreign customers. This was disclosed by Mr Onesy Boutsivongsack, President of the Lao Garment Association, to the KPL News yesterday.
At a time when the global financial contagion is raging, the two trade groups, the Lao Garment Association and the Lao Federation of Trade Unions and other employers in the private sector, are discussing with one another on how best to cope with this problem. “Firing the workers from garment factories is easier than the task of capacity building but we have discounted such factor because we are concerned about their welfare,” said Mr Onesy. “We know that our association is facing the twin problems of the global financial crisis and the slow economic growth but we are not considering any retrenchment, he added.
Mr Onesy explained that more than 60 per cent of the Lao labour force in the garment factories is from rural areas, with low job skills and low education and in spite of these the association would not lay them off.
And now the Lao Garment Association is under the pressure of the Lao Federation of Trade Unions to increase the monthly salaries of local garment workers from 300,000 kip to 720,000 kip but it would not accept the proposal, the president told the reporter.
The association, he said, is calling on the government to reconsider the proposal. The garment industry is the third biggest money earner of the country, which last year brought in US$150 million.
(KPL) The Lao Garment Association confirmed yesterday that its members are not planning to retrench any garment workers in Laos even though there is already a slight decrease in orders from foreign customers. This was disclosed by Mr Onesy Boutsivongsack, President of the Lao Garment Association, to the KPL News yesterday.
At a time when the global financial contagion is raging, the two trade groups, the Lao Garment Association and the Lao Federation of Trade Unions and other employers in the private sector, are discussing with one another on how best to cope with this problem. “Firing the workers from garment factories is easier than the task of capacity building but we have discounted such factor because we are concerned about their welfare,” said Mr Onesy. “We know that our association is facing the twin problems of the global financial crisis and the slow economic growth but we are not considering any retrenchment, he added.
Mr Onesy explained that more than 60 per cent of the Lao labour force in the garment factories is from rural areas, with low job skills and low education and in spite of these the association would not lay them off.
And now the Lao Garment Association is under the pressure of the Lao Federation of Trade Unions to increase the monthly salaries of local garment workers from 300,000 kip to 720,000 kip but it would not accept the proposal, the president told the reporter.
The association, he said, is calling on the government to reconsider the proposal. The garment industry is the third biggest money earner of the country, which last year brought in US$150 million.
