400 million baht of redundancy money not paid to workers

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400 million baht of redundancy money not paid to workers

BANGKOK, 7 January 2015 (NNT)-The Department of Labor Protection and Welfare will propose to the cabinet a budget allocation of 130 million baht to help workers being laid off.

Many workers have reportedly been laid off without being paid the redundancy payment by their employers. The total amount of money the employers owe to their employees has now amounted to 400 million baht.

The department was obligated to spend the Employee Aid Fund to relieve hardship of those workers. The employers involved would be contacted later to repay the compensated amount.

The sum of 130 million baht will be sought from the cabinet to refill the Employee Aid Fund that only has 170 million baht left at present.BANGKOK, 7 January 2015 (NNT)-The Department of Labor Protection and Welfare will propose to the cabinet a budget allocation of 130 million baht to help workers being laid off.

Many workers have reportedly been laid off without being paid the redundancy payment by their employers. The total amount of money the employers owe to their employees has now amounted to 400 million baht.

The department was obligated to spend the Employee Aid Fund to relieve hardship of those workers. The employers involved would be contacted later to repay the compensated amount.

The sum of 130 million baht will be sought from the cabinet to refill the Employee Aid Fund that only has 170 million baht left at present.The additional sum will be spent on assisting more workers that could be laid off in the future.


-- NNT 2015-01-07

[Costas2008]

Why contacted later and not now?

Why haven't they done anything up to now?

Get them to pay or prosecute them......no excuses.

And I believe this is the tip of the iceberg, there are many laid off workers that haven't been in contact with the tribunal.

Time to enforce the law as in other cases we have seen up to now.

[worgeordie]

Good luck getting anything of employers here.

regards worgeordie

[Pib]

I expect the laid off workers will be contacted later but I expect few will repay. They'll just give puppy dog eyes and say if they had known they would have to repay they would not have taken the money...plus they don't have any money to make the repayment. Then the govt just kinda forgets about it even though they may send some follow repayment notices.

And when it comes to the employers paying the overdue redundancy pay, if they didn't pay it when letting the employee go well they are probably never going to pay it.

[Sydebolle]

Much more such incidents will happen. Yingluck managed to inflate the staff costs by 28.3% across the board without increasing the efficiency of the workforce by a bit. Result is reassessment of location and quite a few are moving.
Obviously quite some companies reduced their capital to the bare minimum and then left leaving the remaining capital to be used for the redundancy/severance payments.
Employers are RE-acting after smart actions by previous governments. Some purely local companies (in construction) or local golf courses hire brigades of Cambodians; albeit not necessarily according to the stipulations of the Labour Department; latter not having any official knowledge of the doings.
What goes around comes around; quite some of those laid-off staff voted for their own midterm fiasco; very sad indeed.

[gp2002]

About 8 teachers from SIAM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have still NOT BEEN PAID our July salaries.

[seajae]

so the employers havent been paying their employees redundancy payments but no one in the redundancy office staff worried about it till now, why not. Were the staff being paid to look the other way or were they just too lazy to chase them down. Maybe they should use the staff payments towards the compensation seeing the staff never bothered to do their jobs.

[Robby nz]

Could it be that these civil servants are now being stirred along just a little and being expected to do their jobs ?

Heads have rolled in many ministries and new ministers are in place, perhaps seeing some at the top removed and stripped of their pensions could have had an effect, some may even have looked up the word accountability in their dictionaries.

The cabinet should be demanding a full accounting of every baht that is spent and records of where it goes and to whom.

[drand11]

Redumdancy payments get crazy in thailand. Long standing businesses with long term employees come onto hard times. If a business needs to downsize by 50%, often they need to close cause in tough times, the cost to pay this fee for layoffs just gets excessive. This has nothing to do with unpaid salaries....its basically unemployment payments.

[robblok]

Redumdancy payments get crazy in thailand. Long standing businesses with long term employees come onto hard times. If a business needs to downsize by 50%, often they need to close cause in tough times, the cost to pay this fee for layoffs just gets excessive. This has nothing to do with unpaid salaries....its basically unemployment payments.

Companies know this and should reserve money for it. I understand its hard and it would be better if companies paid into a government scheme who then paid the layoffs (as in many other countries). But that would mean the monthly payments are higher now they are lower and if they don't reserve a thing i feel they are at fault.

[theslime]

capitalism in action

[slapout]

lack of enforement by the majority of civil employees seem the norm no matter what or to whom they are assigned to monitor. what do these clowns do during their working hours, or do they even go to work at the office they are assigne3d to?

this may be another problem area that could have some real promise for those looking for graft/corruption. the lack of fundsw would seem to just be the tip of what may be another billion baht scam.

the graft/corruption busters/investigators may have the most secure, potential longivity of any group in Thailand.

[thailiketoo]

About 8 teachers from SIAM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have still NOT BEEN PAID our July salaries.

Is this the same complaint from 2012?

[IMA_FARANG]

The first "stress cracks" are beginning to show through the wealthy façade of the Ponzi scheme of "investor" based Corporate Capitalism.

[rubl]

For foreigners redundancy pay may sound better than it is. If a workpermit is cancelled or not renewed the related visa is also terminated and you have SEVEN days to leave the country. Doesn't leave much time to 'arrange' things, now does it?

[Chao Lao Beach]

About 8 teachers from SIAM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have still NOT BEEN PAID our July salaries.

From the middle of last year, how many years do you intednt to work for free ?

[rickirs]

Employers will be ‘contacted later’ to repay the 400 million baht

No, you start arresting employers and seizing employer assets to cover the payments. Swift and fair justice.

[whiteman]

I am so glad I am retired and do not have to worry about this underhanded 3rd world shit over here

[bigt116]

For foreigners redundancy pay may sound better than it is. If a workpermit is cancelled or not renewed the related visa is also terminated and you have SEVEN days to leave the country. Doesn't leave much time to 'arrange' things, now does it?

A visa is not terminated, only an extension of stay based on employment. You do not have 7 days to leave, you must leave that day unless you apply for an extension of stay.

You have a huge post count, and are yet still posting this drivel.

[surangw]

interest piling up on the funds meanwhile?

[anon022]

Employers will be contacted later to repay the 400 million baht

No, you start arresting employers and seizing employer assets to cover the payments. Swift and fair justice.

[gp2002]

About 8 teachers from SIAM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have still NOT BEEN PAID our July salaries.

Is this the same complaint from 2012?

No.....this is a new case because there was a new owner.

[gp2002]

About 8 teachers from SIAM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have still NOT BEEN PAID our July salaries.

From the middle of last year, how many years do you intednt to work for free ?

What do you mean?

[Cake Monster]

This is just another typical way in which the laws are totally disregarded across the board in Thailand.

[maidee]

do they mean the kind of workers that hardly show up for work or work only a few days and then quit ?