Employers urged to obtain temporary permit for alien workers within Aug 7

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Employers urged to obtain temporary permit for alien workers within Aug 7

Surapan Laotharanarit

 

 

BANGKOK, 7 July 2017 (NNT) – The Ministry of Labor has suggested employers of illegal migrant workers to contact related coordination centers to apply for a short-term work permit for them no later than August 7. 

During a meeting of the Labor Ministry, Spokesperson of the Ministry Ananchai Uthaipattanacheep called on people who are hiring unregistered foreign workers to travel to the coordination centers which will be set up nationwide for handling foreign labor issues in order to register their employees’ personal data. Ten of the coordination centers will be located in Bangkok while the rest will scatter in every province. They will be open for registration only from July 24-August 7 this year. 

Once the migrant workers’ information has been filed with the centers, the Labor Ministry will examine their personal records, conduct a health checkup and verify their nationality before issuing them with a short-term work permit, which will expire on March 31, 2018. Each applicant will be liable to pay a processing fee of 100 baht and a yearly permit fee of 900 baht. 

As for migrant workers whose permits contain inaccurate job or workplace information, the employers will need to take them to the Provincial Employment Office to apply for a new permit. 

Mr Ananchai affirmed that all procedures involved in the management of foreign workers will be carried out with utmost transparency. Any relevant state officials found accepting bribes can be reported to Hotline 1694. 

 

 

-- nnt 2017-07-08

[dcnx]

Oh, this only applies to slave labor workers, not all foreigners.

[fforest1]

If they are illegal workers why are they being offered

a permit?

With the permit are they now legal workers?

 

This permitting sounds a whole lot like data mining..Without much benefit for the poor workers...

 

 

Edited July 8, 2017 by fforest1

[Moti24]

I can see several u-turns coming up; if the illegal workers become legal workers, they'll have to be paid more than Bt200 per day, unless it's going to be just another dual-pricing scam.

[Happyman58]

Think they worked it out they have no Thai workers to take there place Always a pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow they say