Department offers Thai workers chance to go overseas

By The Nation

 

Suchat Pornchaiwiseskul

 

Once the Covid-19 crisis has been resolved, the Department of Employment (DOE) aims to send more than 50,000 workers overseas by September.

 

Suchat Pornchaiwiseskul, the department's director-general, said this move is in line with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's policy send the Thai workforce overseas.

 

"We expect to send 20,120 workers to Taiwan, 3,818 to Japan, 6,421 to South Korea, 2,488 to Malaysia, 2,934 to Singapore and 2,840 to Israel," he said.

 

He added that Thai workers are known worldwide for their discipline and skills, and sending them abroad is possible now that Thailand has been able to control the spread of Covid-19 effectively.

 

"There is a great need for Thai workers, especially skilled and semi-skilled workers, in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Israel," he said.

 

"There are also jobs available in the service and hotel industry, but Thai workers have to develop their language skills, such as English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese, to vie for these jobs."

 

He added that he expects the private sector to play an important role in linking employers overseas to the Thai workforce once the Covid-19 outbreak comes to an end.

 

"The department will discuss the plan with related authorities at the Labour Ministry on June 20," he added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30389394

 

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LOL

I've certainly been impressed by the skills of those I've met in Singapore and KL, but I'm doubtful they had been "sent" there by the PM.

Out of sight out of mind

 

  Exodus of 1,500 migrant workers daily sparks worry of Thai labour shortage ????Send the Thais abroad to earn the big bucks and pay the migrant Burmese, Khmer and Lao workers $#!t to work in Thailand then whinge about a labour shortage. Pure GREED! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Once the Covid-19 crisis has been resolved, the Department of Employment (DOE) aims to send more than 50,000 workers overseas by September.

Great, now we know the crisis is over by September. 

Ok girls, time to pack up and leave Yai to take care of the kids, it's off to Korea. Shake dat booty.

The government is finally waking up to the explosion of jobless ! Dark days are coming for the out of work with no help from their government ! 
So not surprising that the labour dépt will do everything they can to make it easy for these poor souls to find work abroad. 

This isn't new.  This is something that happens all the time.

Unfortunately all of Asia is suffering from the worldwide recession and I can assure you these jobs aren't there now.  Furthermore, places like Japan and China aren't accepting these workers anyways.  

 

1 hour ago, geisha said:

The government is finally waking up to the explosion of jobless ! Dark days are coming for the out of work with no help from their government ! 
So not surprising that the labour dépt will do everything they can to make it easy for these poor souls to find work abroad. 

They aren't going there jabbering in Thai, that's for sure.  They require language skills before they will even be considered.  And considering the amount of Thais that speak a second language, well... again, nothing new.  Kids who wanted to go learned Japanese, Mandarin long ago.  

If the unemployment rate locally as a result of the covid related shutdowns is truly 25%, then fill these vacant positions with Thai workers first. It's ridiculous that all the Thais are fleeing abroad and then a labor shortage arises, only to be filled with Burmese.

 

Some parts of Thailand are so heavily reliant on Burmese labor you can't even find a Thai worker if you wanted to. I hear they have started hiring Burmese as cashiers at 7-11 in places like Mae Sot due to the local labor shortage.

 

The frustration i have with that is that most of the lesser educated newly arrived Burmese don't speak Thai let alone English, so miming and use of gestures is the only way of telling them what to do and that gets old quick.

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

Ok girls, time to pack up and leave Yai to take care of the kids, it's off to Korea. Shake dat booty.

I am shocked by how few Thai children are raised by their own parents, or at most one parent. About the only group of Thais who one sees being raised by both parents are the more affluent, Chinese-Thais. Poor, rural Thais are almost invariably raised by a single parent or Yai. No wonder there are so many social problems in this country.

18 hours ago, webfact said:

"We expect to send 20,120 workers to Taiwan, 3,818 to Japan, 6,421 to South Korea, 2,488 to Malaysia, 2,934 to Singapore and 2,840 to Israel," he said.

I'm sure the little ghosts have their applications in already.... 

I hope all the countries will ENFORCE strict work permit laws on everybody

 

& detention & deportation for life if caught working illegally

following the CCP line of exporting the garbage ????  

 

so if LOS is apparently clean... then why force them into the lands under the threat? - they have to come home 'sometime'

Don't you love the way Thais always come up with such exact figures

19 hours ago, webfact said:

We expect to send 20,120 workers to Taiwan, 3,818 to Japan, 6,421 to South Korea, 2,488 to Malaysia, 2,934 to Singapore and 2,840 to Israel

 

21 hours ago, webfact said:

Once the Covid-19 crisis has been resolved, the Department of Employment (DOE) aims to send more than 50,000 workers overseas by September.

Good! At last a government department has confirmed that Covid 19 will be history by the end of July. Let's party????

Discipline ???? so now Thailand is a country that will rely on remittances?  That is a serious warning at the state of despair that Thailand is in.

 

They need farm workers everywhere, but it seems, at least in Thailand, that Thais are above such menial jobs.

Most countries need jobs for their own people right now.

Must say one thing that surprised me recently is the number of Thai 'returnees' reported in the covid stats. I can understand many are students or wives of foreigners but had no idea that so many Thai had jobs abroad. What do they do?

 

Thousands back already and at least 2 or 3 weeks more of arriving flights.

 

 

23 minutes ago, Redline said:

Discipline ???? so now Thailand is a country that will rely on remittances?  That is a serious warning at the state of despair that Thailand is in.

 

They need farm workers everywhere, but it seems, at least in Thailand, that Thais are above such menial jobs.

Most countries need jobs for their own people right now.

Yet they do these menial jobs in other countries. Seems that many Thais are just lazy or not willing to work for 300 Baht a day.

9 minutes ago, Saltire said:

Must say one thing that surprised me recently is the number of Thai 'returnees' reported in the covid stats. I can understand many are students or wives of foreigners but had no idea that so many Thai had jobs abroad. What do they do?

 

Thousands back already and at least 2 or 3 weeks more of arriving flights.

 

 

Prostitutes, farm workers, massage shop and restaurant employees mainly. Mostly low skilled work.