SA KAEO (NNT) - Thailand has reopened its border with Cambodia to migrant workers to address labor shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Sa Kaeo Deputy Governor Nattachai Nampoonsuksan reported that a total of 184 Cambodian laborers crossed through the Ban Khlong Luek checkpoint in Aranyaprathet in Sa Kaeo province on Tuesday (1 Feb). The group is among the migrant laborers permitted to work in Thailand under the Labor Employment Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Thailand and neighboring countries.

 

According to the Federation of Thai Industries, Thailand currently needs around 800,000 migrant workers to serve the manufacturing, tourism and service sectors. To address labor shortages, the Thai government signed an MoU with Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos, allowing workers from these countries to rain employment in the Kingdom.

 

Employers in Thailand are required by the Ministry of Labor to pay a quarantine charge of 8,500 baht for each foreign worker they register. Each worker must spend one week in a COVID-19 quarantine facility, while those who have not been vaccinated will receive inoculations.

 

The ministry’s Department of Employment has opened channels for business operators to apply to hire migrant workers, with companies who can pay for work-permit fees and quarantine charges for their employees enrolling in the process. The registration period for bringing in foreign workers ends on February 13, 2023.

 

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18 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

a total of 184 Cambodian laborers crossed through the Ban Khlong Luek checkpoint

So, just another 799,816 to go?

"FTI: 800,000 migrant workers needed" from the BP

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Each worker must spend one week in a COVID-19 quarantine facility, while those who have not been vaccinated will receive inoculations.

I am sure they will.. 

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand has reopened its border with Cambodia to migrant workers to address labor shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why not offer the positions to the Thai unemployed instead of sending them to Saudi?

[rhetorical question, sarcasm at work]

33 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Why not offer the positions to the Thai unemployed instead of sending them to Saudi?

[rhetorical question, sarcasm at work]

That could involve real hard work and low pay

Maybe a non starter .

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Employers in Thailand are required by the Ministry of Labor to pay a quarantine charge of 8,500 baht for each foreign worker they register.

I am sure the employers will deduct this from their slave wages.

1 hour ago, Orinoco said:

That could involve real hard work and low pay

Maybe a non starter .

Working in Saudi will be even harder work with similar pay I suspect. 

 

Forced to go to the national stadium to watch executions and amputations on their days off.

3 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Working in Saudi will be even harder work with similar pay I suspect. 

 

Forced to go to the national stadium to watch executions and amputations on their days off.

Worked there many years, never saw one or other. Don't be in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Can't see Thai employers being tempted by a quarantine fee. They will continue to use illegal immigrant labour for the foreseeable future.