Department of Employment warns of fraudulent fruit picking jobs in Sweden and Finland

[Lite Beer]

Department of Employment warns of fraudulent fruit picking jobs in Sweden and Finland

BANGKOK, 13 July 2014 (NNT) – Workers are warned of fraudulent fruit picking jobs in Sweden and Finland while the Department of Employment insists that this year’s legitimate quotas are full, at about 5.9 thousand visas.

The Director General of the Employment Department said this year’s quotas have been approved by both Sweden and Finland with 5,924 visas granted.

The Thai Embassy in the two countries will collect workers' data in order to monitor the well being of the Thais and provide any aid required by the approved workers while they’re employed abroad.

-- NNT 2014-07-13

[greg71]

Will they have the same announcement for all those teaching jobs on offer here within Thaland

[AloisAmrein]

How many of them will overstay the visa and not leave the country?

[noitom]

This Thai blueberry picker sad story has been around in Thai news for years. The Thai workers always later claim they were swindled or not paid in later news.There are generally two stories in Thai news about this blueberry picking in Scandinavia. One is to celebrate the fact that Thais can get work over seas as fruit pickers. The follow up news is always about Thais getting screwed in some way.

[raiya]

in here finland they (thais) asked

money from government to help them..

just asking, if farangs ask money from

thaigovnt when we are <deleted> up with our money...

[siampolee]

What is neglected is the fact that those fruit pickers are recruited by fellow Thais who run these employment agencies

So who is actually cheating who?

[Lupatria]

At least they don't keep Thai slaves to work on their factory ships, even though provided food and accommodation would be much better than that of a 3-star hotel in Isan.

[tonbridgebrit]

Right, so Cambodians and Burmese are in Thailand, and they work as cheap labour.
And Thais go to Sweden and Finland, are Thais more hard working and cheaper than people in Sweden and Finland ?

Maybe Sweden and Finland should go straight to Cambodia, and give work permits to Cambodians. After all, the Cambodians are cheaper than the Thais. OR, Sweden and Finland don't allow people from outside the European Union to come in, only allow people from the poorer areas of the European Union to go to Sweden and Finland.

If you're going to let in non-European Union labourers, why have Thais and NOT have Cambodians ??