Labour Ministry prepares over 800,000 jobs to lessen unemployment

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - “As the Labour Minister, I have assigned the director-general of the Department of Employment (DOE) to conduct a survey of labor demand in enterprises nationwide, and have proactively prepared 814,198 vacancies. 389,495 of the job vacancies are for skilled Thai workers and 424,703 vacancies are in migrant worker-dependent businesses.

 

Thai workers are also welcome and will be paid no less than the minimum wage. Most of the available jobs are in the export manufacturing sector of the automotive industry, as well as the production of electronic circuit boards, medical equipment, and frozen food”, said Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin

 

In addition, since August the Department of Employment has proactively supported matching between employers and job applicants during the pandemic, via an Online DOE Job Fair 2021 platform, offering job searches and interviews which can be done online. The Thai-based platform has more than 1.3 million vacancies.

 

DOE director-general Pairoj Chotikasathien, said today that the first Online Job Fair was held for job markets in Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Phitsanulok, Pathumthani, Nonthaburi, Samutprakarn, Udonthani, Nakhonratchasima and Nakhon Si Thammarat. There were 9,064 vacancies available. 4,245 applicants had registered and 931 were immediately hired. On 13th August, a similar expo was held in the Eastern Special Development Zone (EEC) at which 8,910 positions were available in Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong.

 

Regarding Thai workers who apply for positions in overseas job markets including Sweden and Finland, the Labour Ministry plans to send 100,000 Thai workers abroad in 2021 fiscal year. 38,019 have already departed and 61,981 are in the process of being sent as planned.

 

Job applicants can seek more information at www.doe.go.th

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-08-15

 

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[mikebell]

3 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

There were 9,064 vacancies available. 4,245 applicants had registered and 931 were immediately hired.

Doesn't say much about the the others. We hear so much about the dire straits Thailand's economy is in yet 50% of the available jobs weren't applied for.  Maybe this suggests the average Thai is allergic to work.

[Hayduke]

10 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Maybe this suggests the average Thai is allergic to work.

Maybe it suggests that some people like to tell themselves this.

 

[ThailandRyan]

56 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Thai workers are also welcome and will be paid no less than the minimum wage.

Yet it will be ok to underpay the migrant workers but not the Thais who might be doing the same job.

[djayz]

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

Doesn't say much about the the others. We hear so much about the dire straits Thailand's economy is in yet 50% of the available jobs weren't applied for.  Maybe this suggests the average Thai is allergic to work.

Or maybe the companies are advertising the vacancies in the wrong media? 

[Bluespunk]

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

Maybe this suggests the average Thai is allergic to work.

Didn’t suggest that to me. 

[hotchilli]

Maybe they could open labour exchange offices in every tambol... somewhere businesses could advertise vacancies with required skill sets. These could be matched to workers before going for interviews.

That would create employment in it's own right.

[Almer]

5 hours ago, mikebell said:

Doesn't say much about the the others. We hear so much about the dire straits Thailand's economy is in yet 50% of the available jobs weren't applied for.  Maybe this suggests the average Thai is allergic to work.

Or maybe its a load of old tosh from somebody who has to say something, anything will do.

[trainman34014]

14 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Maybe they could open labour exchange offices in every tambol... somewhere businesses could advertise vacancies with required skill sets. These could be matched to workers before going for interviews.

That would create employment in it's own right.

Takes brains to do such things but even then i can just imagine almost nobody turning up at the Labour Exchange; a few Women maybe but the majority of Men around our way are not interested in any work, just send the Mrs out to work all hours in the Local Market to earn enough for Beer, Fags, feed the Kids etc.  The Teenage Boys have little interest in any work; much easier to live off their Parents backs while they lob Yaba down their throats and lay around all day !

[RichardColeman]

6 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

to conduct a survey of labor demand in enterprises nationwide, and have proactively prepared 814,198 vacancies

So just survey waffle then

[Scott Tracy]

4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Takes brains to do such things but even then i can just imagine almost nobody turning up at the Labour Exchange; a few Women maybe but the majority of Men around our way are not interested in any work, just send the Mrs out to work all hours in the Local Market to earn enough for Beer, Fags, feed the Kids etc.  The Teenage Boys have little interest in any work; much easier to live off their Parents backs while they lob Yaba down their throats and lay around all day !

Sounds like you live near me...Same here.

[club]

Does he know their is a deadly Pandemic world wide? He might want to hold off on his brilliant idea 

[herfiehandbag]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Maybe they could open labour exchange offices in every tambol... somewhere businesses could advertise vacancies with required skill sets. These could be matched to workers before going for interviews.

That would create employment in it's own right.

 

4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Takes brains to do such things but even then i can just imagine almost nobody turning up at the Labour Exchange; a few Women maybe but the majority of Men around our way are not interested in any work, just send the Mrs out to work all hours in the Local Market to earn enough for Beer, Fags, feed the Kids etc.  The Teenage Boys have little interest in any work; much easier to live off their Parents backs while they lob Yaba down their throats and lay around all day !

Well here is a revolutionary new idea - if you register at such an unemployment office you can receive some unemployment assistance. If they match you to a vacancy and you don't take it you lose the unemployment assistance!

[kimamey]

6 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

So just survey waffle then

My wife works in the Department of Skill Development which is part of the Ministry of Labour and I sent this to her. I pointed out that it doesn't make sense to survey vacancies when you've already "proactively prepared 814,198 vacancies". I'm not sure I understand how you can do that either.

[Scott]

Troll posts reported and removed.

 

[Searat7]

You can’t wave a magic wand and prepare 800,000 new jobs so quickly. He must be getting lessons from Piphat on how to throw out numbers,

[mikebell]

21 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn’t suggest that to me. 

So how do you explain the disparity in jobs offered and vacancies unfilled?

[mikebell]

23 hours ago, Hayduke said:

Maybe it suggests that some people like to tell themselves this.

 

 

 

Have you ever walked round Thaiwatsadu (pre-Covid) and noted the groups of 'workers' hiding in the shadows, playing with their phones, avoiding customers?  Have you ever observed the diligence of Thai cops monitoring traffic during the regular overtime Dangerous Days bonanza? 

[RJRS1301]

23 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

and have proactively prepared 814,198 vacancies. 389,495 of the job vacancies are for skilled Thai workers and 424,703 vacancies are in migrant worker-dependent businesses.

How does one "proactively" prepare job vacancies?

What is a "migrant worker dependent business? Is that job no one else wants?

How do you apply during travel restrictions/lockdowns and no funds to travel anyway?

 

Is the Labour Minister attending classes with the Tourism department  of obfuscation?

 

 

[RJRS1301]

11 hours ago, kimamey said:

My wife works in the Department of Skill Development which is part of the Ministry of Labour and I sent this to her. I pointed out that it doesn't make sense to survey vacancies when you've already "proactively prepared 814,198 vacancies". I'm not sure I understand how you can do that either.

It is Ok, ask the PR department they may explain it to us

[DaveSamutP]

On 8/15/2021 at 9:25 AM, mikebell said:

Doesn't say much about the the others. We hear so much about the dire straits Thailand's economy is in yet 50% of the available jobs weren't applied for.  Maybe this suggests the average Thai is allergic to work.

A reflection of the immaturity of the Thai economy and decades of policy which encouraged sufficiency. 

 

It works well as long as the Thais have virtually no significant middle class or even one aspiring to be. 

 

As long as tens of millions of Thais are happy to work a little when there is work and go back to subsistence farming when there is little work, Thais will not go hungry but also never attain higher levels of socioeconomic development. 

 

It's PERFECT for the elites. In fact, I wish I could get in on it 

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, mikebell said:

So how do you explain the disparity in jobs offered and vacancies unfilled?

Could be many reasons but I don’t just automatically assume work allergic Thais. .