Thai PM warns businesses not to hire illegal migrant workers or face closure

 

 

All employers in Thailand have been sternly warned not to hire illegal migrant workers, or face closure, by the country’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Monday).

 

He also urged members of the public to alert officials if they encounter illegal migrant workers and provincial officials are to conduct random health screenings of migrant workers in their respective provinces.

 

He said that the new COVID-19 outbreak indicates that there are loopholes in the enforcement of regulations and health safety guidelines, allowing illegal migrants to enter Thailand and obtain work.

 

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He has closed many already with the closures of the borders and the tourism sector. Maybe he wants 100 percent unemployment.

6 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

All employers in Thailand have been sternly warned not to hire illegal migrant workers, or face closure, by the country’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Monday).

what a tiresome old song in thailand; 'obey the law or else'; nothing will change

17 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Thai PM warns businesses not to hire illegal migrant workers or face closure

 

Well, he and his Thai army are in a very comfortable situation. They have their conscripts for polishing their boots. They don't need to employ illegal migrant workers. 

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12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said that the new COVID-19 outbreak indicates that there are loopholes in the enforcement of regulations and health safety guidelines, allowing illegal migrants to enter Thailand and obtain work.

I do believe this should read "He said that the new COVID-19 outbreak confirms that there are loopholes" ............LOL

This is like Murica and the Mexicans. Whos gonna do all the <deleted> jobs Thais wont do if not for their cheap immigrant labor force.

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He also urged members of the public to alert officials if they encounter illegal migrant workers and provincial officials are to conduct random health screenings of migrant workers in their respective provinces.

 

So now any Laos, Burmese or Cambodian migrant worker is going to be targeted "at random" for health screenings. How soon before this "random" health screening includes us dirty foreigners too? Is a law in place, or neccessary, for these random health screenings? I suppose it's probably covered by "state of emergency" though.

 

You got to be kidding, maybe look in the mirror I would be surprise if there isn't one government representative that doesn't have an illegal cleaning up after them!???? 

15 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

He has closed many already with the closures of the borders and the tourism sector. Maybe he wants 100 percent unemployment.

He wants to go back to times of old, where he resides as lord & master in the castle, with all the peasants toiling in the fields to fill his kitchen.

As he sweeps through the nation collecting taxes they all fall at his feet as throws out a few scraps, like corn to the chickens.

4 hours ago, starky said:

This is like Murica and the Mexicans. Whos gonna do all the <deleted>ty jobs Thais wont do if not for their cheap immigrant labor force.

thats why like soldiers , vip  and others have a natural imunity did u not know that?

17 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

He has closed many already with the closures of the borders and the tourism sector. Maybe he wants 100 percent unemployment.

He is on a salary I guess?

3 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

I suppose it's probably covered by "state of emergency" though.

The "state of emergency" allows him to do whatever he considers necessary in the name of Covid-19 prevention.

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20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

warned not to hire illegal migrant workers, or face closure

Too late, the damage (or should I say infection) has already been done. As I have stated before, "reactive Thailand" not "pro-active Thailand".

Maybe Prayut and his cronies are well advised to physically check, what it can take to legally employ an ASEAN citizen under the AEC2015 rules. Forget the maze for the dirty farang, aka "alien", I talk about ASEAN citizen. 

 

We ultimately sold our F&B business three years ago (good luck for that) because the bureaucracy just brought everything to a screeching halt. I burnt three HR managers who just walked away from all this paper avalanche including three photographs of the house number (the house and, separately, the house number as well) of the place of work for each and every non-Thai ASEAN citizen we wanted to hire! 

Mission (almost) impossible - by experience. We wanted (and ultimately got there) to hire Philippine servants and an Indonesian cook for our restaurant back in the day in Pattaya, as we simply could not find any Thais with sufficient English in service or willingness to earn THB 20K in the kitchen. Who in this country wants to carry 50kgs heavy sacks of rice, peel shrimps for eight hours a day or can pineapples? Certainly not Khon Thai!

The labour department in Cholburi flatly refused to allocate the (legal) quota we were entitled and referred to the "agents waiting outside the very same office offering their head hunting services for THB 25K per person " (most likely relatives of those pr1cks inside the building).

After three failed attempts by my very able HR manager at the time I went there myself andI mentioned to the officer that, unless I would be given the quota here and now, I would take the matter up with Khun Anuchai himself at the department's head office in Bangkok - which made things moving.

I don't know, if there is a Khun Anuchai in Bangkok working there, but the officer in Cholburi had no clue either and the trick worked and I got the quota with a few minutes without any "handling" or "processing" fee. The extension a year later was related to a detailed work description by the alien in writing, in Thai language. That's when I decided to sell the whole lot three years ago. 

The problem is, that the government breathing down the industry with all sorts of threats is the same bunch of officers putting all possible brakes on developing this country. One step forward, three backwards ..... Go figure ........