webfact Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 On March 19th, 2024, Mr. Somchai Morakotsriwan, the Director-General of the Department of Employment, publicly revealed a case of immigrant workers allegedly illegally taking over Thai people’s jobs in tourist attractions and commercial areas in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Chiang Mai, and other locations. Somchai stated immigrant workers included various nationalities such as Burmese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese, Russian, and Indian nationals. The foreign workers allegedly illegally competed with locals in commercial areas in Chinatown, Huai Khwang, Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Koh Samui, and other popular tourist destinations. According to statistics from October 1st, 2023 to March 18th, 2024, the Thai Department of Employment inspected 25,628 companies nationwide and 306,577 individuals from the aforementioned nationals. As a result, more than 1,689 individuals were facing legal action with 721 individuals allegedly directly competing with Thai locals for jobs. By Kittisak Phalaharn Full story: THE PATTAYA NEWS 2024-03-21 - Discover how Cigna Insurance can protect you with a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment. For more information on expat health insurance click here. Get our Daily Newsletter - Click HERE to subscribe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingtlger Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 This is a fight tRump would like to have dog in...... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rampant Rabbit Posted March 20 Popular Post Share Posted March 20 Cuz they can do it better , fact 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikebell Posted March 20 Popular Post Share Posted March 20 Thais have no work ethic; in fact little sense of ethics at all. There is not one area of Thai life free from corruption (check out the millions stolen by crooked monks in Korat). There is no sense of building a customer base by thoughtful service; they look no further than the immediate baht. There is over-reliance on restrictive practices like price-fixing cartels/monopolies. When farangs attempt to plug some of these gaps they cry foul. 1 1 2 1 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted March 20 Popular Post Share Posted March 20 They work much harder, they work for less money, and they do jobs the locals don't want to do. So immigration can arrest some people, they can deport some people, it's not going to solve the problem this problem is not going away. The US faces the same issue. 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 2baht Posted March 21 Popular Post Share Posted March 21 3 hours ago, webfact said: On March 19th, 2024, Mr. Somchai Morakotsriwan, the Director-General of the Department of Employment, publicly revealed a case of immigrant workers allegedly illegally taking over Thai people’s jobs in tourist attractions and commercial areas in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Chiang Mai, and other locations. Who lets them in and who gives them the jobs???🤔 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted March 21 Popular Post Share Posted March 21 3 hours ago, webfact said: Mr. Somchai Morakotsriwan, the Director-General of the Department of Employment, publicly revealed a case of immigrant workers allegedly illegally taking over Thai people’s jobs in tourist attractions and commercial areas in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Chiang Mai, and other locations. If Thais wanted the work the migrants wouldn't get a look-in. 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted March 21 Popular Post Share Posted March 21 Just now, 2baht said: Who lets them in and who gives them the jobs???🤔 Trafficked in with Thai people traffickers and given employment by Thai employers... but hey.. it's the migrants fault. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobodysfriend Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Tried to find a thai who takes care of the garden ... = impossible . One worked some days , but left directly after I asked him if he has eyes ( Mai mee taa , mai ? ) . The plant he was watering died already of thirst ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 5 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said: Tried to find a thai who takes care of the garden ... = impossible . One worked some days , but left directly after I asked him if he has eyes ( Mai mee taa , mai ? ) . The plant he was watering died already of thirst ... I got one.... he seems to spend most of the day in my bathroom or fixing his ancient garden tools. He beats the one prior who chopped through my water pipes with his strimmer, and yes, they do like the lazy job of standing there with a hose pipe! I'm even lazier though! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Normally it's Thai's who do all the employing of illegal workers, I cant think of any farangs who employ Burmese, There is many Thai restaurants around Rawai with Burmese workers, mostly hotel staff around here are Burmese, 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, spidermike007 said: The US faces the same issue. "Report: Trump Happily Employing Undocumented Workers While ICE Rounds Them Up" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers 86% of agricultural workers in the US are foreign-born and 45% of all US agricultural workers are undocumented. https://cmsny.org/agricultural-workers-rosenbloom-083022/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scouse123 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, mikebell said: Thais have no work ethic; in fact little sense of ethics at all. There is not one area of Thai life free from corruption (check out the millions stolen by crooked monks in Korat). There is no sense of building a customer base by thoughtful service; they look no further than the immediate baht. There is over-reliance on restrictive practices like price-fixing cartels/monopolies. When farangs attempt to plug some of these gaps they cry foul. Great response, Agree absolutely with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 20 minutes ago, ChipButty said: There is many Thai restaurants around Rawai with Burmese workers, mostly hotel staff around here are Burmese, Quite a lot of restaurant staff non-Thai around Pattaya too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scouse123 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 20 minutes ago, ChipButty said: Normally it's Thai's who do all the employing of illegal workers, I cant think of any farangs who employ Burmese, There is many Thai restaurants around Rawai with Burmese workers, mostly hotel staff around here are Burmese, When I was in hotels and restaurants down Pattaya way, government representatives would come in and go through the books thread to the needle checking social security payments, tax payments, licences, everything. Surrounded by Thai businesses, did they go to their establishments? Not a chance! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scouse123 Posted March 21 Popular Post Share Posted March 21 23 minutes ago, ChipButty said: Normally it's Thai's who do all the employing of illegal workers, I cant think of any farangs who employ Burmese, There is many Thai restaurants around Rawai with Burmese workers, mostly hotel staff around here are Burmese, Koh Chang is full of Cambodians doing work that Thais don't want to do. Which is anything that involves washing, getting dressed and doing a day's work. 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scouse123 Posted March 21 Popular Post Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, hotchilli said: If Thais wanted the work the migrants wouldn't get a look-in. Yes, but that doesn't fit the narrative, just like foreigners are responsible for all Thailand's woes! We are right back to xenophobia until they can figure out a deflection story more suitable. Thais want money WITHOUT work. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 57 minutes ago, ChipButty said: Normally it's Thai's who do all the employing of illegal workers, I cant think of any farangs who employ Burmese, There is many Thai restaurants around Rawai with Burmese workers, mostly hotel staff around here are Burmese, Over the last 12 years Ive had many Burmese, some are ok some are not, however even they dont want field work they want a factory job and with overtime. In 12 years of having staff only 2-3 have been good , 90% are dross. cue the you pay them peanuts brigade, who are clueless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampant Rabbit Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 33 minutes ago, Scouse123 said: Yes, but that doesn't fit the narrative, just like foreigners are responsible for all Thailand's woes! We are right back to xenophobia until they can figure out a deflection story more suitable. Thais want money WITHOUT work. you mean a security guard..............all night sleeping 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordgrinz Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Pot, meet Kettle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JeffersLos Posted March 21 Popular Post Share Posted March 21 A report about non-Americans working in a country that isn't America on a discussion board based in ASEAN. The very first post. Trump. 😒 Posts based on American politics should be allowed in an American Politics area of the webboard and no where else. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffersLos Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 hours ago, mikebell said: Thais have no work ethic My Thai inlaws are in their 70s and are up and working from the break of dawn every day of their life, and have never asked for 1 baht from anybody. Their neighbors are the same. Do you work that hard, Mister Bell? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinchester Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) So in 6 months of investigation by the Dept of Employment, 306,577 foreign nationals were investigated, of which 1,689, a whole half percent, were working illegally and of those 721 were directly competing with work that should have been done by a Thai. Hardly a threat to the Thai economy is it? Edited March 21 by edwinchester 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post radiochaser Posted March 21 Popular Post Share Posted March 21 (edited) 1 hour ago, JeffersLos said: My Thai inlaws are in their 70s and are up and working from the break of dawn every day of their life, and have never asked for 1 baht from anybody. Their neighbors are the same. Do you work that hard, Mister Bell? mikebell must be hanging out with the wrong Thai crowd. My wife and her family are pretty much what you described. A bunch of work a holics! Good with money too. My wife asked if I would loan her $120,000.00 from my retirement fund. She paid it back in less than 2 years. She has a business that earns her more money than anyone else I have known, except that guy down in Texas that sold drill pipe to the oil well industry. He was making over a 3 million a year at 2% sales commission, in today's money! My brother in law (BIL) across the street from me works a full time job and has a side business as well that he works. His ex father and mother in law (EFIL & EMIL) continued to live with him after his wife divorced him and remarried. EFIL & EMIL are up at dawn doing something to make money. I go across the street to talk with BIL's EFIL and I find him always working on something, fixing it up to so the BIL can sell it on facebook. mikebell's all inclusive claims about Thai's fall flat as all the Thai's I know, not just my wife and inlaws, are hard working honest people. That might even include the Thai cop who works in the Vipawadee police department. Edited March 21 by radiochaser 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 minutes ago, radiochaser said: mikebell must be hanging out with the wrong Thai crowd. My wife and her family are pretty much what you described. A bunch of work a holics! Good with money too. My wife asked if I would loan her $120,000.00 from my retirement fund. She paid it back in less than 2 years. She has a business that earns her more money than anyone else I have known, except that guy down in Texas that sold drill pipe to the oil well industry. He was making over a 3 million a year at 2% sales commission, in today's money! My brother in law (BIL) across the street from me works a full time job and has a side business as well that he works. His ex father and mother in law (EFIL & EMIL) continued to live with him after his wife divorced him and remarried. EFIL & EMIL are up at dawn doing something to make money. I go across the street to talk with BIL's EFIL and I find him always working on something, fixing it up to so the BIL can sell it on facebook. mikebell's all inclusive claims about Thai's fall flat as all the ones, not just my wife and inlaws, are hard working honest people. radiochaser........This Is Your Life.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiochaser Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 minutes ago, transam said: radiochaser........This Is Your Life.... Can you post a talkie? I hate musicals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djayz Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 7 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said: Cuz they can do it better , fact And more times than not, with a smile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 minute ago, radiochaser said: Can you post a talkie? I hate musicals! It's just the intro..........🤗 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiochaser Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 minute ago, transam said: It's just the intro..........🤗 No it wasn't. I watched ... eerrrr ... listened to the entire video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 6 minutes ago, radiochaser said: No it wasn't. I watched ... eerrrr ... listened to the entire video! No,😋 thanks, you can stop at the end of the intro.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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