Statistics in brief on Fair Wage dimensions
The aim of this ‘Statistics in brief’ is to provide statistics collected at enterprise level on the different Fair Wage dimensions.
A first auditing, done end of 2008 by the FLA on fair Wages among more than 30 enterprises in Asian countries, yielded findings on almost all the Fair Wage dimensions below:
Payment of wages
- Not paying wages
- Delaying payment of wages
- Underpayment of wages
Starting wage and living wage
- Starting wage allows decent living
- Starting wage doesn’t allow decent living
- Don’t know
Average wage and living wage
- Starting wage allows decent living
- Starting wage doesn’t allow decent living
- Don’t know
Legal minimum wage
- Starting wage below MW
- Starting wage above MW
Legal minimum wage payment
- Difficulty in respecting MW
- No difficulty in respecting MW