12 Thai workers “stranded” in Dubai return home

[Jonathan Fairfield]

12 Thai workers “stranded” in Dubai return home

 

 

Another 12 Thai job seekers who had been left stranded in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), returned to Thailand on Monday morning (Nov 6).

 

They were received on their arrival at about 1.30am by Owat Thongbomakrut, director of the the employment registration and protection division, and officials from the Employment Department and the immigration office at Suvarnabhumi airport.

 

The 12 are part of more than 100 Thai workers sent by job placement firms to work in Dubai, UAE, where they expected to get the jobs as promised.

 

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[Jonathan Fairfield]

Dubai turns away Thai workers over ‘lack of skills’

 

A group of 12 Thai men who were promised work by a job placement agency in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, returned to Thailand yesterday after they were told that they had not passed a skills test.

 

This brought the number of Thais refused by a firm in Dubai to 31 after the return of a first group on Saturday. It has been reported that many other Thai jobseekers have faced the same fate in Dubai. Referring to the first group of 19 men, Anurak Thossarat, acting Employment Department chief, said that his department had cooperated with immigration police to oversee them. According to Anurak, the group travelled to Dubai to work as welders with an oil company.

 

They received their positions through a job-placement agency, and their employers flew to Thailand to conduct skills tests. The Thais passed the tests before travelling to Dubai. However once they were there, the employers wanted them to work in another position. They were given a further skills test which they did not pass. The employers allegedly terminated the Thais’ contracts without notifying them in advance, and refused to pay their salaries.

Anurak said the Labour Ministry’s representative in Dubai had helped negotiate with the employers, who later agreed to pay some pending money to the Thais. The Employment Department will help facilitate their return to Thailand and offer them legal advice if they want to pursue the case. It is believed that another group of about 20 Thais who were refused jobs in Dubai are expected to return to Bangkok tomorrow.

 

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