Thai workers who fled unrest in Israel and bought their return tickets can now apply for a refund, according to the Ministry of Labour‘s Secretary, Pairoj Chotikasathien. This is in response to the recent conflict in Israel that has impacted Thai workers in the country.

 

Thai workers who have returned from Israel since October 7, can now request reimbursement for their travel expenses as a result of the unrest. Applications can be submitted at the Labour Assistance Centre and the Situation Monitoring Centre for unrest in Israel, located on the first floor of the Ministry of Labour building on Mittraphap Road, Din Daeng district, Bangkok.

 

For those in the provinces, applications can be submitted at any provincial labour office across the country. The documents and evidence required for a refund must be from expenses incurred since October 7. These include:

 

1. Boarding pass or flight ticket/receipt or payment document

2. Identity card copy

3. Travel document/passport copy

4. Bank account book copy of the recipient.

 

Pairoj further added that the Ministry of Labour will cater to all Thais who have returned due to the unrest in Israel. This includes student groups, and Thai workers, and will forward the documents to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for consideration of compensation/reimbursement.

 

By Nattapong Westwood

Caption: Photo courtesy of KhaoSod

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-10-31

 

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9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Pairoj further added that the Ministry of Labour will cater to all Thais who have returned due to the unrest in Israel. This includes student groups, and Thai workers, and will forward the documents to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for consideration of compensation/reimbursement.

Not all that glitters is gold.

In a related article. Many thais are now choosing to stay in Israel. Due to their financial debts obtaining the work and traveling there to do the work.. I seriously doubt they would be making this choice if the government had provided their travel for free to escape the chaos there. With so many Thai dead there already and many hostages being taken that are Thai. the government made it obvious that only the people who had the money could leave. 

Now they choose to offer a refund to those people and still do not offer support in actually leaving that country. 

Once again Thailand is retroactive leaving so many there with really no choice how they can leave and using that as a claim that they prefer to stay and risk being killed or taken hostage. 

Perhaps this could be extended to customers of the national airline still awaiting reimbursement for cancelled flights. 😋