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Based on the company's annual report 2019, the company had 158 full time employees, 38 of these were women. The company also had 891 daily labourers (temporary/seasonal works) of which 317 were women. However, base on local sources, some local laborers who work for company complained that the company provides low wages to them (they now only get 60,000 kip/day; they want company to pay 80,000 kip/day). According the report from Finnfund, a Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, Burapha has provided labour opportunities to over thousand Lao people in rural areas every year and have trained many for advancement to skilled labour positions. Source: Finnfund (2020) According the local news, company expected to create job for about 8,501 people based on its approved feasibility study report in 2020. Source: Lao Economic Daily