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Phuket Police arrest illegal masseurs
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The five women were working as massage therapists at a hotel in Phuket Town.

Phuket: -- Four Burmese and one Cambodian women were arrested for working illegally as masseurs on Wednesday afternoon (March 11) after failing to produce their work permits.

Police, led by Pol Lt Col Somsak Thongkliag, Inspector of Phuket City Police arrested the five while they were working as massage therapists in the Sinthavee Hotel in Phuket town.

The five were named as Ma, 19, Nan Mee Mee, 21, Nan Mein Mu, 26, and Nan Tip, 22, from Burma and Van Nak Suk, 31, from Cambodian.

The five have all been charged with working illegally without a work permit and are being held at Phuket Police Station.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-police-arrest-illegal-masseurs-51380.php

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-- Phuket News 2015-03-13

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Surely the responsibility should lie with the employer to check the staff have the relevant work permits in order have the information to pay tax to the government ?.

This seems all wrong. Those girls look pretty young and clueless and will do anything to earn money. It's ridiculous that it's not the employer who has been arrested.

As usual in Thailand, it seems the law is written by those in power to protect themselves and their 'supporters'.

The game was played the same way in Singapore, that land of law abidingness. A shop would be raided, the maseusses (usually Thai or Chinese) would be arrested, and they would kept in an immigration cell for a couple of days before being sent home with the appropriate stamp on their passport. The shop would be open just a few days later with a whole new batch of girls. I think the owners would be fined some amount equivalent to less than a couple day's income. It went on like this for a good 10 years. It was only two years ago that the police got serious about the whole thing and actually shut the shops down.

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Surely the responsibility should lie with the employer to check the staff have the relevant work permits in order have the information to pay tax to the government ?.

This seems all wrong. Those girls look pretty young and clueless and will do anything to earn money. It's ridiculous that it's not the employer who has been arrested.

As usual in Thailand, it seems the law is written by those in power to protect themselves and their 'supporters'.

Yes the employer should be punished too for employing illegal staff.

But policing is not regarded as the responsibility of the seller...... many examples of that.

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