Thai PM tells operators to improve business quality

BANGKOK, May 25 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promised on Friday that her government will improve local workers’ skills to prevent serious impacts from her administration's nationwide 300-baht daily minimum wage policy on both employers and employees, urging local operators to, however, improve quality of their businesses to cope with changes. Yingluck said that the daily minimum wage rise to 300 baht will boost local workers’ income and purchasing power, which will also propel the national economy. The Puea Thai premier urged, nonetheless, that local firms, especially small and medium-sized ones, adjust their businesses to changes and focus more on workers’ quality, which she suggested, will be a key to the national economic development, insisting that her government will continue taking care of both local workers and business operators, especially small and medium-sized ones. The prime minister made the remarks when opening a fair on work and workers’ productivity, aimed at being a forum for representatives of the government, as well as the private and the civic sectors to exchange knowledge and experiences and to jointly work out strategies for the production and the development of workers’ knowledge and skills to meet local employers’ demands, in preparation for the formation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community by 2015. (TNA)