By Hanthar Hein - Nov 05, 2023
Many people leave the country due to the disparity in income. Some local businesses are having difficulties finding workers.
According to local entrepreneurs, due to the disparity in the income earned by a worker, some local businesses are experiencing difficulties due to the shortage of workers due to the fact that many people are going to work abroad.
As the value of the Myanmar currency fell and the increase in domestic prices after the coup, the number of people going abroad to work has increased by more than half from before for better wages.
``In our village, there are no more palm tree workers. The people who working on palm trees are in their 40s and 50. After this generation, there will be no more people who know about palm trees jobs. Many of the young people in the village go abroad to work. With the income and price of goods here, they can't even fill their stomach so how they could save. So, they abroad to work,'' said a palm tree wood owner from Nyaung Oo Township.
It is reported that there is a labor shortage not only in agriculture and livestock, but also in the industrial sector.
“In the past, there were too many female seamstresses, but now there are very few skilled ones. They went to Thailand. Working as a seamstress in Thailand is the just doing the same job, but if convert it in Myanmar currency, they earn more than 30,000 per day there, even without overtime. Here, the base salary is 4,800 MMK and would be 10,000 MMK if other gratuities are counted, so that the young people left,'' said a worker working as a super at a garment factory in Hlaing Thar Yar.
Currently, on average, more than 1,000 people went to Thailand, more than 200 people to Malaysia, more than 500 people to Japan and South Korea and other countries, and there are also illegal migrants every day.
