Thai Labor Ministry to bar migrant workers from becoming sidewalk vendors

[webfact]

Labor Ministry to bar migrant workers from becoming sidewalk vendors

BANGKOK, 27 May 2016 (NNT) - Labor Minister Sirichai Ditthakul has been informed of migrant workers who illegally turned out to be sidewalk vendors.

He instructed the Department of Employment to monitor migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar to see to it that they all will do the provided jobs as unskilled laborers or servants. Importantly, they must be hired by certain employers and cannot be self-employed like a street vendor, he said.

People who may notice any migrant worker showing up as sidewalk vendors are advised to inform the Department of Employment or the police or call Hotline 1694.


-- NNT 2016-05-27

[Koosdedooes]

The Veggie Burger Farang better watch out then

[gandalf12]

So this is how ASEAN functions, interesting

[lostinisaan]

And the witch hunt began...

[kingalfred]

So this is how ASEAN functions, interesting

ASEAN will turn.out to be one big fake so called " free movement economic zone" in respect of Thailand

[aussieinthailand]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

[starky]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

Of course your right not to mention the amount of skill, training and knowledge that must be brought to bear in learning how to fry a <deleted> fish ball.

[gandalf12]

So this is how ASEAN functions, interesting

ASEAN will turn.out to be one big fake so called " free movement economic zone" in respect of Thailand

Thailand wants the benefits of being part of ASEAN but still wants to maintain everything for itself within Thailand. I can see a lot of flack coming Thailand's way from member states.

[Estrada]

Half the street traders selling food here are from Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos, so goodbye to cheap food for the masses.

[skildpadden]

"all will do the provided jobs as unskilled laborers or servants. Importantly, they must be hired by certain employers".

Well done. in very few words he told how the government views its neighbors (you are nothing but servants to us) and also how the trafficking appear to be organized (who are these "certain employers"?).

[alant]

Does ASEAN amount to anything? I cant see any of the trade and free movement I now believe I mistakenly though would be a part of the Zone. There seems to be no free movement and no reciprocal "set up shop". If a street vendor is such a threat to Thailand there is little hope. It is clear from this government view that at best ASEAN is for unskilled cheap labour when in Thailand.

[overherebc]

Does ASEAN amount to anything? I cant see any of the trade and free movement I now believe I mistakenly though would be a part of the Zone. There seems to be no free movement and no reciprocal "set up shop". If a street vendor is such a threat to Thailand there is little hope. It is clear from this government view that at best ASEAN is for unskilled cheap labour when in Thailand.

Perhaps the migrant workers don't understand the hygiene regulations that are adhered to by local street vendors.

[wabothai]

So this is how ASEAN functions, interesting

Asean ain't for the poor.

[iBike]

I'm still confused about what ASEAN even is. I attended an HR summit recently and it seemed the leaders of the summit did not even know. They were just talking lots of rubbish on worker migration/employment that isn't relevant or correct in the real world.

[JAG]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

Of course your right not to mention the amount of skill, training and knowledge that must be brought to bear in learning how to fry a <deleted> fish ball.

Ah but it has to be fried in a specifically different Thai way, culturally unique and not understood by menials - sorry I ment migrants.

Incidentally, dead keen on getting the public to "inform" aren't they, I suppose it saves having to leave your air conditioned office to look yourself...

[gandalf12]

Does ASEAN amount to anything? I cant see any of the trade and free movement I now believe I mistakenly though would be a part of the Zone. There seems to be no free movement and no reciprocal "set up shop". If a street vendor is such a threat to Thailand there is little hope. It is clear from this government view that at best ASEAN is for unskilled cheap labour when in Thailand.

If it is the same or equivalent of the British Commonwealth it does nothing whatsoever. If anything it is a hindrance.

[BKKdreaming]

since they are getting rid of so many street vendors , they want the few left to be Thais, sounds logical to me

next they will want the Thai "slave" fish boats to hire the un-employed Thais who were street vendors and complained ,

After 14 hours of fishing they can get a few more hours of "re-education"

Low low low unemployment ...........

[lostinisaan]

No idea if the Bangladeshis are also in other provinces, but Sisaket and even nearby little towns/villages are flooded with them. They're doing jobs a Thai wouldn't do, usually behave and some of them have a family to feed.

But not just the "Rotri guys", also Cambodians, Vietnamese, Laotian, etc.. will soon disappear. But there're a lot of farang who're running a small business ( or their wives and some of them don't even know that they're technically not even allowed to clean a glass at a restaurant).

This witch hunt gives them legal rights to "use Thais' Thainess" to call a toll free number.

Similar to the war on drugs by Khuin Thaksin with the result that one pill raise from 40 to 500 baht. Congratulations, it made all and everything even more complicated, bar girls had to stay with a handsome 82 year old guy on Viagra for 24 hours ( at this time 500 baht) to be able to buy one pill. I'm pretty sure that plenty of foreign pervs made some bar girls to what and how they are now. Fragged up.

"What goes around, comes around."

A great welcome for the ASEAN community, Thainess at its best. This country would be similar to Myanmar without bar girl hunting farangs who'd spent all their life savings and sometimes got hit by too heavy Ping Pong Balls, then maybe fly over the balcony.

I tried to "do the math" and I must have spent around 12 million baht by now, always pay my taxes, never committed a crime, but I'm not in a better situation than a Chinese pool squatter who spends here 2 K in one week.

C'Mon, let's all sing the ASEAN Anthem now. : 1,2,3.

[greenchair]

I do hope that myurma that is going to develop at an explosive pace, with reciprocate all of these regulations, when they are up and stronger.

It always seems to me that the Thai don't like to share even a small piece of the pie.

In my country the Thai can work any job they want. Receive free school and health care. Buy land, own a business. Receive old age pension, family benefits.

The list just goes on.

Why doesn't thailand have a limited percentage of people that could share a few thai jobs.

Especially to people that have given many years of slave work and taxes to Thailand or spouses of thai.

[Nelson1950]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

Have you ever tried a kebab made by a Thai?

The biggest disappointment ever !

[Baerboxer]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

There have been several instances of migrant workers illegally working as vendors and flogging fake good such as juices, hygiene products etc.

So no, I don't think allowing illegal criminals who want to rip people off selling crap whilst pretending it's something else is a good idea. Especially when the can disappear back home very quickly and avoid any consequences.

Could I go to Australia and just set up selling OJ, shampoos and soaps, perfumes or even meat pies on the side of the road?

[Baerboxer]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

Have you ever tried a kebab made by a Thai?

The biggest disappointment ever !

Nearly as bad as trying beer made by Aussies

[Baerboxer]

I do hope that myurma that is going to develop at an explosive pace, with reciprocate all of these regulations, when they are up and stronger.

It always seems to me that the Thai don't like to share even a small piece of the pie.

In my country the Thai can work any job they want. Receive free school and health care. Buy land, own a business. Receive old age pension, family benefits.

The list just goes on.

Why doesn't thailand have a limited percentage of people that could share a few thai jobs.

Especially to people that have given many years of slave work and taxes to Thailand or spouses of thai.

Myurma?

A combination of Burma and Myanmar? What a novel idea. You should suggest it to them.

[Baerboxer]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

Of course your right not to mention the amount of skill, training and knowledge that must be brought to bear in learning how to fry a <deleted> fish ball.

Ah but it has to be fried in a specifically different Thai way, culturally unique and not understood by menials - sorry I ment migrants.

Incidentally, dead keen on getting the public to "inform" aren't they, I suppose it saves having to leave your air conditioned office to look yourself...

Go to any EU country, set up a roadside stall selling cooked food, juices, soaps, shampoos or hygiene problems and see how you get on.

And you probably can go there without problem if you have a EU passport. Try it, let us know how you get on.

[gandalf12]

So this is how ASEAN functions, interesting

Asean ain't for the poor.

In theory it is for everyone

[aussieinthailand]

We can't have competition in our street vendors now can we, I mean when you have a choice of bugs, pork or fish balls who wants anything else?

Vietnamese spring rolls, Lao pork rolls, Malay Laksa, Turkish Kebab, or Greek souvlaki, bugga off you people can only have "UNSKILLED or SERVENTS positions here in land of scams.

Have you ever tried a kebab made by a Thai?

The biggest disappointment ever !

Nearly as bad as trying beer made by Aussies

Obviously you have not been too little creatures in Freo, (Fremantle) mate, Stone & wood, James Squire 150 lashes, Mountain goat pale ale, Three Sheets pale ale, craft beer is fantastic, body, flavor..... Maybe give it a crack before you slag em off mate. Not a suppressing comment from ypo mate.

Edited May 27, 2016 by aussieinthailand

[sweatalot]

And what about the Thai sidewalk vendors - are they not existing?

[Docno]

I'm sympathetic to migrants who sell street food... there's a Myanmar fellow in my gf's village who sells excellent roti. But I wonder how many others here who cracking on Thailand for this action are on the Trump train about sending 1000s of illegals back to Mexico and building a wall. Perhaps none, because that would be a trifle hypocritical, right...?