Navy shutters Samut Sakhon fish factories

By  Patcharapol Panrak

 

The Royal Thai Navy shut down a dozen seafood-processing factories in Samut Sakhon last week for labor law violations.

 

SAMUT SAKHON: -- Workers line up to have their IDs checked during last week’s Royal Thai Navy inspections, which led to a dozen seafood-processing factories in Samut Sakhon being shut down for labor law violations.

 

Capt. Paisan Meesri, deputy commander of Air and Coastal Defense Command in Sattahip, led 130 police, sailors, fishery, labor, immigration, welfare and industrial officials on an inspection of 19 factories in the central coast province as part of Thailand’s continuing effort to comply with European fishing standards.

 

Thailand faces a threat of its seafood being banned from the European Community for failing to meet standards against illegal, reported and unregulated fishing.

 

Twelve factories were closed for employing illegal aliens and other violations of the Labor Protection Act, Social Security Act and Factory Act.

 

Source: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/navy-shutters-samut-sakhon-fish-factories-156213

 

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2016-11-25

 

These factories and their owners should be relocated into Laos...

I thinks its funny , stories like this is popping up everywhere , before EU meeting about the fishing industry and properly Yellow or a red card, in Thailand :D

Edited November 25, 20169 yr by carstenp

In shuttering the factories, I hope the officials insure that the workers receive their severance payments and other entitlements under Thai labor law.

11 minutes ago, pookiki said:

In shuttering the factories, I hope the officials insure that the workers receive their severance payments and other entitlements under Thai labor law.

 

Sad fact is, usually the workers are the first (and often the only ones) to get punished.

1 hour ago, trogers said:

These factories and their owners should be relocated into Laos...

 

. . . will be relocated to Laos.

 

When Thailand cracked down on child labor, Nike and Adidas just moved their shoe factories to Vietnam and Indonesia.  We can expect no different, if the seafood processing factory owners can't reopen their factories elsewhere in Thailand under a different name.  

41 minutes ago, zaphod reborn said:

 

. . . will be relocated to Laos.

 

When Thailand cracked down on child labor, Nike and Adidas just moved their shoe factories to Vietnam and Indonesia.  We can expect no different, if the seafood processing factory owners can't reopen their factories elsewhere in Thailand under a different name.  

 

You missed my point. Laos is land bound...?

The EU could not give a cuss about foreign workers so why does this make headlines?

Follow the money...which of the competitors remains open for business?

Though the human trafficing and illegal worker problems in this corrupt industry were cleaned up last month.

Something fishy here (still) !!!

 

Just last week we were told everything's OK, and the EU were satisfied with the "government’s" performance on Thailand's IUU problem https://is.gd/fk87yT.

 

Obviously, everything is NOT OK - it's enough to make you see red ...