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Fri, 02/25/2011 - 08:48
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First batch of Thai workers from Libya likely to return home late Feb
BANGKOK, Feb 25 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Labour says that the first batch of workers from Libya is expected to arrive home by the end of this month.
Jirasak Sukhonthachart, Director General of the ministry's Department of Employment, acknowledged that private employment firms are legally obliged to provide food supply for Thai people they send to work in Libya and to evacuate them to safe places in case of any emergency, and that he had called a meeting with 42 local private employment firms which had sent some 23,000 Thai people to work in the North African nation to explain them the legal obligations.
Jirasak insisted that the first batch of the Thai workers evacuated from Libya should, therefore, arrive in Bangkok by this coming Sunday (Feb 27).
According to the senior Thai Labour Ministry official, Thai nationals are to first evacuate from Libya by either the private employment firms or by Thai government agencies to third countries--before flying to Bangkok.
Fears of a full-scale civil war in Libya, following a public uprising against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year-regime, starting from February 15 in the wake of similar widespread anti-government protests in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt with deadly crackdowns by state security forces leaving more than 600 fatalities, have prompted countries worldwide to evacuate their nationals from riot-torn Libya. (TNA)
Jirasak Sukhonthachart, Director General of the ministry's Department of Employment, acknowledged that private employment firms are legally obliged to provide food supply for Thai people they send to work in Libya and to evacuate them to safe places in case of any emergency, and that he had called a meeting with 42 local private employment firms which had sent some 23,000 Thai people to work in the North African nation to explain them the legal obligations.
Jirasak insisted that the first batch of the Thai workers evacuated from Libya should, therefore, arrive in Bangkok by this coming Sunday (Feb 27).
According to the senior Thai Labour Ministry official, Thai nationals are to first evacuate from Libya by either the private employment firms or by Thai government agencies to third countries--before flying to Bangkok.
Fears of a full-scale civil war in Libya, following a public uprising against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year-regime, starting from February 15 in the wake of similar widespread anti-government protests in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt with deadly crackdowns by state security forces leaving more than 600 fatalities, have prompted countries worldwide to evacuate their nationals from riot-torn Libya. (TNA)
