Labour ministry to make labour protection more inclusive

BANGKOK, 4 May 2015 (NNT) – The Ministry of Labour is set to extend labour protection coverage to all groups of informal workers, according to a ministry official.

The Deputy Permanent-Secretary of the Labour Ministry Arrug Phrommanee has said regarding the management of the informal workers, that authorities must consider providing labour protection to diverse groups of informal workers that current work in the country.

He has said that the previously established ministerial regulations on labour protection to agricultural labourers, housewives, workers working at home, and fisheries workers are still insufficient in covering all categories of informal workers. Therefore the ministry needs to consider issuing additional laws to cover all the groups, such as contract farmers.

The ministry also needs to consider providing access to capital for informal workers as well, as currently the only foundation that provides capital to informal workers is only for workers working at home.

The Labour Ministry Deputy Permanent-Secretary has further said that coordination centers for informal workers in each province will have to provide service to the informal workers while coordinating with the provincial labour networks, as well as collecting the information of informal workers in each area such as the type of occupation, quantity, and contact information, in order to provide a wider coverage of services for the management of informal workers in the future.


-- NNT 2015-05-04

Wouldn't it just be less of a hassle to prepare a new component of the census package and capture this data amongst others they might be seeking rather than this patchy at best approach. Sure it won't identify individuals but it will permit a broader capture of data from which the entire government can develop policies and so on. It seems every week some department is going on a data hunt, time to get this organized.

And Thailand takes another step towards non-competitiveness. I guess they really don't want foreign investment in industry.

They would be in big trouble, without the foreign labour force.

You mean to tell the International community that only some of the Thai work force are worth protecting and others are not , gee Thailand you sure are a third world country, never mind an emerging economy, that finished back in 1997.

currant work ?? they have currant factories here ?

Wouldn't it just be less of a hassle to prepare a new component of the census package and capture this data amongst others they might be seeking rather than this patchy at best approach. Sure it won't identify individuals but it will permit a broader capture of data from which the entire government can develop policies and so on. It seems every week some department is going on a data hunt, time to get this organized.

I don't know that much about it. Though any effort is appreciated.

Why don't you step forward with your concept and see if you can help? It would be better for you than to criticize.

You appear intelligent enough.

Hopefully this will be a small step forward in labor protection versus just another step sideways.

I can't wait to see what labor laws they come up with in regard to housewives.