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Cops crack down on illegal migrants
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 02/07/2018
» A massive crackdown on illegal migrants has been launched nationwide after the registration of undocumented alien labourers reached deadline on Saturday.
Sex stings 'breach women's rights'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 04/06/2018
» Crackdowns on human trafficking are welcomed but stings on sex workers should be made illegal because they violate human rights, sex work advocates say.
Service centres for migrants to re-open
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 20/04/2018
» The Labour Ministry's one-stop service (OSS) centres will resume services nationwide next Monday in a bid to legalise migrant labourers who had registered online by last month.
New law offers social security lifeline
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 11/04/2018
» The amended version of the Social Security Fund Act will help more than 750,000 former members of the Social Security Fund regain access to medical welfare.
Last-day chaos as 1.3m migrants register
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 01/04/2018
» >> Over 1.3 million migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar completed their registration with the Labour Ministry on the last day of registration yesterday.
Ageing population gives rise to worries over pensions
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 08/01/2018
» Amid concerns about the sustainability of the Social Security Fund (SSF) due to an ageing population, the Social Security Office (SSO), which oversees the SSF, continues to lock horns with labour networks over how best to address the issue.
Pension reform planned
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 24/09/2017
» >> The Finance Ministry has set out to ensure workers receive a monthly payout of at least 50% of their final salaries after retirement.
770,000 migrant workers being 'legalised'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 21/08/2017
» The government is processing more than 770,000 illegal migrant workers who decided to register with the state in their bid to stay in the country, Employment Department director-general Waranon Pitiwan says.
1997 meltdown 'unheeded lesson'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 03/07/2017
» The 1997 financial meltdown, known as the Tom Yum Kung crisis, is an important lesson for policy-makers on the need to ensure better protections for the labour sector -- the hardest hit by the crisis -- so workers do not end up as "easy victims" of economic vulnerability, according to Narong Phetprasert, Chulalongkorn University labour economist.
Government fails to head off health plan fight
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 26/06/2017
» A conflict over the controversial amendments of the National Health Security Act looks set to escalate into a "war" between proponents in the government camp and health activists who question attempts to shake up hospital finances.