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Thu, 10/06/2011 - 14:03
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Over 40,000 workers affected by Thailand's floods
BANGKOK, October 6 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Labour reported on Thursday that more than 40,000 workers of over 1,100 firms have been affected by the country's widespread floods since late July.
Athit Isamo, a Labour Ministry inspector in his capacity as the acting director general of the ministry's Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, said that some 1,116 firms in 58 Thai provinces have been hit by floods over the past couple of months, affecting more than 35,000 workers.
Athit revealed that nearly 250 plants in two major industrial estates in Thailand's central Ayutthaya Province have also been damaged by the country's vast inundations, troubling additional 52,000 workers.
Regarding to short-term assistance provided to the flood-affected firms and workers, the senior official acknowledged that his ministry has set up operational relief centre in each flood-stricken province to assist local workers and has dispatched teams of officials from the workplaces safety centre to take care of business operators and workers in flooded areas and to advise them on proper ways to protect themselves from hazardous chemical substances and machines, as well as leaking and electrical shorts.
According to the senior Thai Labour Ministry official, his ministry has also sought cooperation from local employers to pay regular wages to flood-affected workers and to compromise on their flood-related leaves or delays in coming to work, as well as to provide official loans, sponsored by the Social Security Office (SSO), to needed flood-affected firms and workers, as part of the Thai government's rehabilitation programs for flood victims in the wake of the ongoing flooding crisis. (TNA)
Athit Isamo, a Labour Ministry inspector in his capacity as the acting director general of the ministry's Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, said that some 1,116 firms in 58 Thai provinces have been hit by floods over the past couple of months, affecting more than 35,000 workers.
Athit revealed that nearly 250 plants in two major industrial estates in Thailand's central Ayutthaya Province have also been damaged by the country's vast inundations, troubling additional 52,000 workers.
Regarding to short-term assistance provided to the flood-affected firms and workers, the senior official acknowledged that his ministry has set up operational relief centre in each flood-stricken province to assist local workers and has dispatched teams of officials from the workplaces safety centre to take care of business operators and workers in flooded areas and to advise them on proper ways to protect themselves from hazardous chemical substances and machines, as well as leaking and electrical shorts.
According to the senior Thai Labour Ministry official, his ministry has also sought cooperation from local employers to pay regular wages to flood-affected workers and to compromise on their flood-related leaves or delays in coming to work, as well as to provide official loans, sponsored by the Social Security Office (SSO), to needed flood-affected firms and workers, as part of the Thai government's rehabilitation programs for flood victims in the wake of the ongoing flooding crisis. (TNA)
