Macao’s minimum wage is going up to 34 patacas per hour next year. That extra money has to come from somewhere.
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A bid to increase the minimum wage to 35 patacas from 32 will be a blow to enterprises struggling to recover from the pandemic, he says.
Government-initiated bill implementing statutory minimum wage for all workers, except domestic helpers and employees with disabilities, has been passed.
Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng announced that the council has drafted a bill which proposes that the statutory minimum wage for cleaners and doormen employed by the property management sector be raised to 32 patacas per hour from the current amount of 30 patacas an hour, an increase of 6.6 percent.
Macau is the only Chinese jurisdiction which still does not have a statutory minimum wage for all employment sectors, unlike the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The government intends to introduce a universal minimum wage for all workers, following its initial introduction for cleaning and security personnel working in property management companies. “We intend to implement the minimum wage for those two sectors this year. But our stand on this is implementing a minimum wage for all workers within three years,” […]