29,327 Workers Laid Off This Year

[churchill]

Three hundreds and five factories had been closed in the first four months of this year, laying off 29,327 workers, Permanent Secretary for Labour said Monday.

Citing the Employment Termination Watch Committee's report about the situation from January 1 to May 1, Somchai Chumrat said that it was particularly hard in densely industrial provinces such as Samut Prakan that had seen 14,123 workers loosing their jobs followed by Ayutthaya's 12,051 affected workers, Pathum Thani's 10,829 workers, and Bangkok's 9,009 workers.

Electronic part manufacturing closed the most factories at 110 cases followed by the textiles, fashion accessories and shoes at 114 cases, the autoparts at 81 cases, machine manufacturing at 48 cases and furniture at 81 cases.

The Nation

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/30102...d-off-this-year

-- The Nation 18/05/09

[PastEgo]

the end is nigh we are all doomed

wait till the TV regular bringers of doom get their hands on this material

they are all master debaters they will cream themselves over this

[Merangue]

Three hundreds and five factories had been closed in the first four months of this year, laying off 29,327 workers, Permanent Secretary for Labour said Monday.

Citing the Employment Termination Watch Committee's report about the situation from January 1 to May 1, Somchai Chumrat said that it was particularly hard in densely industrial provinces such as Samut Prakan that had seen 14,123 workers loosing their jobs followed by Ayutthaya's 12,051 affected workers, Pathum Thani's 10,829 workers, and Bangkok's 9,009 workers.

Electronic part manufacturing closed the most factories at 110 cases followed by the textiles, fashion accessories and shoes at 114 cases, the autoparts at 81 cases, machine manufacturing at 48 cases and furniture at 81 cases.

The Nation

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/30102...d-off-this-year

-- The Nation 18/05/09

Anyone else see a discrepancy in the math here?

[Mali1964]

Those figures are nothing when compared to the UK 277,000 in the first 3 months of the year lets hope it doesn't get that bad here.

[dieter1]

what a kind of bullshit !!!

in the article, they speak about "laying off" workers by closing factories !

Not about the total number of laid off workers !

Hope someone will understand it. I think, as usual, the journalist not understand what they are talking about !

And what does it mean ""closing factories". that´s absolute not precise ! Did they bankrupt ?

Better just to tell how the absolute number of jobs is developing (number of old jobs plus number of new jobs minus number of lost jobs .....)

Or the number of unemployed -

I doubt, they actualy do have these figures in Thailand ! (f.e., because many workers do not get money if unemployed, they are not registrated )

But normaly , the politicians use these number as it please them (normaly they use figures that underestimate the true numbers)

" ... laying off 29,327 workers" in a country with over 60 millions people in the first 4 month in the year of the biggest recession in the last 80 years !!!!!

B U L L S H I T

[MHM]

Actually its just another straw in the wind, confirming the overall trend to major economic downturn. Its best not to get overexcited about one report but to see it as another piece in the jigsaw. As such its very depressing as we have by no means hit the floor yet

[catmac]

Total, utter BS from a totally useless Government Minister!

The total from the four provinces he mentions comes to 46,010 - yet only 29,327 lost their jobs in the whole of Thailand!

Likewise, in the five industrial sectors quoted by him, 434 factories closed - and yet he states that only 305 factories closed covering every sector!

The man is either out of his mind, or (far more likely IMHO) all the statistics given are just made up figures that have no bearing on reality whatsoever. What a shambles this Government is turning out to be.

[stumonster]

What a shambles this Government is turning out to be.

still the same civil servants

[DaleBlue]

This is just the beginning.

[geriatrickid]

What may not be reported are all the small businesses which employ less than 10 people that don't do the filings. Small business employs more people than large business throughout the world.

Edited May 21, 2009 by geriatrickid