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Thailand-ILO agree to enhance protection of Thai and migrant workers
BANGKOK, May 25 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Labour's Department of Employment and the Geneva-based International Labour Organization or ILO signed an agreement in Bangkok Wednesdaybon an operationally-cooperative framework for the employment and protection of Thai and migrant workers.
Department of Employment Director-General Sutassanee Suebwongpat said after the signing ceremony that the agreement was aimed to further strengthen Thailand's employment system and protection, in particular, of workers who are unfairly treated and exploited, in line with the August 3rd Declaration on Workers’ Dignity, announced by the Thai Ministry of Labour.
Sutassanee revealed that a technical working group will then be set up to help map out a two-year operational plan on the suppression of illegal job placement brokers, the dissemination of information on new rounds of migrant workers' registrations and the capacity-building of Thai labour officials.
The director-general said that the setting up of the working group should be completed by the end of this month and his department will then call a meeting of agencies concerned, including the Thai Ministry of Social Development and Human Security and security units, on June 7 to discuss an operational framework of the plan.
According to the senior Thai Labour Ministry official, a pilot project under the two-year plan will be launched in Thailand's northeastern Udon Thani and Chaiyaphum Provinces, where a number of locals have worked aboard, and in the northwestern Tak and the central Samut Sakhon Provinces, where there are a number of migrant workers. (TNA)
Department of Employment Director-General Sutassanee Suebwongpat said after the signing ceremony that the agreement was aimed to further strengthen Thailand's employment system and protection, in particular, of workers who are unfairly treated and exploited, in line with the August 3rd Declaration on Workers’ Dignity, announced by the Thai Ministry of Labour.
Sutassanee revealed that a technical working group will then be set up to help map out a two-year operational plan on the suppression of illegal job placement brokers, the dissemination of information on new rounds of migrant workers' registrations and the capacity-building of Thai labour officials.
The director-general said that the setting up of the working group should be completed by the end of this month and his department will then call a meeting of agencies concerned, including the Thai Ministry of Social Development and Human Security and security units, on June 7 to discuss an operational framework of the plan.
According to the senior Thai Labour Ministry official, a pilot project under the two-year plan will be launched in Thailand's northeastern Udon Thani and Chaiyaphum Provinces, where a number of locals have worked aboard, and in the northwestern Tak and the central Samut Sakhon Provinces, where there are a number of migrant workers. (TNA)
