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Thai workers from Libya complain about overdue pay
BANGKOK, August 1 (TNA) - Thai workers who managed to escape the Libyan crisis five months ago are now finding trouble at home trying to collect unpaid salary and pay off debts.
Over 30 of them had reportedly lodged complaints with Labour Ministry’s Department of Employment Assistance, hoping to get the remainder of their pay from employers.
Somsri Khakaew, 41, said he was sent to work in Libya by the Thai Asian Service Company. He claimed having borrowed 130,000 baht from the bank to pay the company for a job in the North African country.
Somsri said the Libyan crisis erupted after he had worked in the country for only fifteen months, meaning that his employer still owed him over 40,000 baht worth of a two-month salary. When he returned to Thailand, his job placement agency promised to collect his unpaid salary for him but to no avail.
Somsri said he was in deep trouble with a debt now amounting to over 200,000 baht. He said he and most of his colleagues had to work at construction sites to earn money to make a living.
In another development, Payungsak Chartsutthipol, chair of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), said after a meeting of the FTI, the Board of Trade of Thailand and the Thai Bankers’ Association that the three organizations had conducted a study on the possible impact of the government's 300-baht minimum wage policy on different industrial and service sectors, as well as on their production.
Payungsak said their representatives would discuss with the new government as soon as it took office regarding the wage adjustment in order to minimize the impacts of the policy and find the best solution for all parties concerned. (TNA)
Over 30 of them had reportedly lodged complaints with Labour Ministry’s Department of Employment Assistance, hoping to get the remainder of their pay from employers.
Somsri Khakaew, 41, said he was sent to work in Libya by the Thai Asian Service Company. He claimed having borrowed 130,000 baht from the bank to pay the company for a job in the North African country.
Somsri said the Libyan crisis erupted after he had worked in the country for only fifteen months, meaning that his employer still owed him over 40,000 baht worth of a two-month salary. When he returned to Thailand, his job placement agency promised to collect his unpaid salary for him but to no avail.
Somsri said he was in deep trouble with a debt now amounting to over 200,000 baht. He said he and most of his colleagues had to work at construction sites to earn money to make a living.
In another development, Payungsak Chartsutthipol, chair of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), said after a meeting of the FTI, the Board of Trade of Thailand and the Thai Bankers’ Association that the three organizations had conducted a study on the possible impact of the government's 300-baht minimum wage policy on different industrial and service sectors, as well as on their production.
Payungsak said their representatives would discuss with the new government as soon as it took office regarding the wage adjustment in order to minimize the impacts of the policy and find the best solution for all parties concerned. (TNA)
