Labor
NESDC to tap Bt100 billion for funding labour training
The National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) would propose new projects worth Bt100 billion to the Cabinet related to labour skills training and for investments in projects in the communities, council secretary-general Danucha Pichayanan said.The projects would be funded from the Bt400-billion budget, which ...
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Migrant workers to be allowed to stay another two years
Migrant workers who have completed a four-year contract will be allowed to stay in Thailand for another two years to help solve the problem of labour shortage due to the Covid-19 outbreak.Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin said the Cabinet had resolved on Tuesday that workers who ...
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Labor Ministry allocates 1.74 bn baht to skills training [Video]
The Ministry of Labor has allocated 1.74 billion baht specifically for occupational skills training campaigns in the 2021 fiscal year, as an alternative approach to help workers being affected by this year’s pandemic.Keep watching ...
Migrant school closures fuel child labour in Thai seafood industry
Chit Su has been stuck at home peeling crabs with her grandmother since her school for Burmese migrants closed last year in southern Thailand. Even working together, they make less than a daily minimum wage.Ten such schools in Ranong province shut after an August 2019 ...
PM opens Job Expo at Bitec, reiterates focus on human resource development
Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha on Saturday presided over the opening ceremony of Job Expo Thailand 2020, along with other Cabinet members at Bitec Bangna.“The various activities at this event conform to the national strategy in the area of development and empowerment of human resources ...
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New ad-hoc centre to track unemployment, help both employers and workers over legal rights
The Department of Labour Protection and Welfare has launched a new ad-hoc centre to track job losses, hoping to serve as an intermediary to help employers and workers gain access to legal rights.Covid-19 has affected businesses both in terms of increasing costs and unemployment. According ...
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Govt creates over 90,000 jobs to deal with unemployment caused by pandemic
The Department of Employment has created over 90,000 jobs to boost the economy in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak.Minister of Labour Suchart Chomklin said that he had ordered the department to prepare vacant positions both at home and overseas for those who are unemployed ...
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Hourly wages back on table amid concerns
Authorities have pushed the adoption of hourly wages while labour activists remain wary that employees in some industries would be further exploited.As unemployment soars in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak — 9 million Thais are forecast to lose jobs as a result of the ...
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Migrants seek to return to Thailand after lockdown
With the introduction of Phase 6 of easing Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, businesses have reopened and begun hiring, but migrant workers, who went home and waited for outbreak to end, now find themselves on the outside looking in, unable to reenter the kingdom and get back ...
Thailand tightens borders over fears of second wave of coronavirus
Thailand ordered security stepped up at its land borders on Monday after concerns surged over a possible second wave of coronavirus infections, following the arrests of thousands of illegal migrants in the past month.Since the start of June, authorities have arrested 3,000 migrant workers for ...
