Labour Ministry eyes import of legal migrant workers

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Labour is pursuing the import of legal migrant workers from neighboring countries to meet with an increase in demand for alien workers following the country’s reopening. Unregistered migrant workers currently working in Thailand are encouraged to register for their legal status by the end of this month.

 

The Ministry of Labour is to increase the quota for migrant worker import through government-to-government Memorandum of Understanding with neighboring countries, in an effort to discourage illegal border crossing for work and meet the increase of demands for workers as more businesses reopen.

 

The Minister of Labour Suchat Chomklin said he has urged related agencies to work closely with security agencies on the suppression of illegal migrant smuggling along the border while providing a way for unregistered migrant workers currently in Thailand to obtain their legal status.

 

The Ministry of Interior on Friday issued a ministerial announcement allowing unregistered migrant workers to register themselves to obtain their legal work and stay permit. Provincial employment offices are now encouraging employers to have their workers registered. This scheme does not apply to people who cross into Thai borders illegally.

 

This registration scheme is only available until 30 December. The Ministry of Labour expects to receive 100,000 more registrations, on top of 500,000 registrations it has already received.

 

The Department of Employment will on 11 November be holding talks with related government bodies such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Public Health, and the Royal Thai Police to conclude the guideline on additional migrant workers import. This guideline, which involves the Ministry of Public Health due to COVID-19 concerns, will need to be submitted to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration and the Cabinet for final approval.

 

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[Gold Star]

Must they prove they have $50,000 of health insurance?

Show a return flight ticket?

Be double vaxed?

PCR tests before and after?

Prove income? Lodging?

 

If not, my friends are asking where they can apply...

 

 

[GeorgeCross]

import?

 

these are people not rice.

 

 

[Moonlover]

If such an initiative can prevent any reoccurrence of incidence like this, then more power to them.

 

 

[smedly]

5 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Ministry of Labour is pursuing the import of legal migrant workers from neighboring countries to meet with an increase in demand for alien workers

human rights abuse right there - people that come to Thailand to work should be entitled to minimum wage ............................................ it is pretty close to slavery and is definately abuse 

 

pretty disgusting 

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Ministry of Labour is pursuing the import of legal migrant workers from neighboring countries to meet with an increase in demand for alien workers following the country’s reopening. Unregistered migrant workers currently working in Thailand are encouraged to register for their legal status by the end of this month.

If they made this easily accessible on the internet it would stop the illegal trafficking.

But I bet an online registering system would fail just like the Thailand Pass.

 

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, Gold Star said:

Must they prove they have $50,000 of health insurance?

Show a return flight ticket?

Be double vaxed?

PCR tests before and after?

Prove income? Lodging?

 

If not, my friends are asking where they can apply...

 

 

No just sign a document that they will work 18 hours a day 7 days a week for next to nothing, with no rights.

[zzaa09]

6 hours ago, smedly said:

human rights abuse right there - people that come to Thailand to work should be entitled to minimum wage ............................................ it is pretty close to slavery and is definately abuse 

 

pretty disgusting 

Indeed.

There are perfectly enough of our own Thais to meet and serve these tasks of slavery, as a healthy percentage have been taken advantage of for years.

[Petey11]

Headline says it all. "Import of legal workers." The government views those workers as a commodity by the sound of it if the headline is correct.