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This story has been ongoing for over a year now...it is sad, mainly because as reported, the workers often pay [borrow] up to B 200,000 to "job brokers" up in Issan to even get these supposed "jobs" to begin with. Wouldn't suprise me if the Swedish fella was in cahoots with these Thai brokers all along and that they split up the "fees" for these "jobs."

Surprising that these labour abuses are allowed to go basically unchecked in that socialist workers' paradise of Sweden, however.

This appears to be one man, with a Finnish name, although he could be a Swede.

I have worked for major Swedish contractors. At one time we tried to set up our own recruiting agency in Thailand as the Thai agencies were ripping off the workers they sent to us.

But impossible - Thai law would not allow it.

So we had to keep paying the scummy Thai agents and find ways round the conditions imposed so that the families of our workers received a fair portion of what these guys earned.

It cost us money at the start, but I had Thai workers following me from job-to-job for a dozen years or more, because they knew they would get fair treatment and their families would see more money. That is the basic Swedish approach to employees, fair and reasonable.

This guy deserves whatever's coming to him.

Good job for your company trying to do the right thing. Of course, the corrupt Thai brokers and those "influentials" involved in scamming their fellow Thais won't allow it.

I thought the last I read on this a little while back was that the Swedish gov't would ban Thai laborers because of the abuses perpetrated on the workers by the Thai job brokers.

Pay them daily - that way you only risk one day's pay.

Why is it so dam_n important to to BEAT THE LIGHTS. Everytime I wait at the lights, drivers take off BEFORE the lights have had a chance to change. Keep this up and you will DIE. Good Luck and Good Bye. Take more care. Slow DOWN. Why the hurry - do you want to die? You will die one day, so why make it happen EARLY?