North Korean workers at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex will be given a salary at the current minimum level for a fourth consecutive month.
 
An official of the Ministry of Unification said Sunday that the monthly salary for June will be paid at 70 dollars and 35 cents.
 
A representative of South Korean companies at Gaeseong also said that there have been no major breakthroughs in the ongoing negotiations between South Korea’s Gaeseong Industrial District Management Committee and the North’s Central Special Zone Development Guidance General Bureau.
 
The representative said that most of the 124 South Korean companies operating at Gaeseong will hand out June salaries by the official payday on Monday.
 
The two Koreas have been negotiating salaries at the joint factory zone in the wake of the North’s demand for wage hikes.
 
Last November, the North unilaterally revised 13 clauses of the Gaeseong labor rules and began calling for implementing some of the revised clauses, including abolishing a five-percent cap on a yearly minimum wage hike, in February.
 
The North has demanded a five-point-18 percent increase in the monthly minimum wage to 74 dollars.
 
Seoul initially rejected Pyongyang's wage hike demand, saying it violated labor regulations. But, in May the two Koreas agreed to negotiate, determining that retroactive pay would be dispersed once a consensus on a new wage was reached.