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Database integration announced
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 28/03/2023
» The Labour Ministry has moved to integrate its workers' database with the Education Ministry's student database, in an effort to better meet the market's labour demands.
Workers still plead for rights
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 29/12/2022
» Education, labour and employment-related problems remained challenging this year for all stakeholders to tackle.
SSF changes 'could hurt members'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 12/02/2022
» A leading Thai economics professor has strongly opposed a plan seeking to allow subscribers of the Social Security Fund (SSF) to withdraw lump sums from the pension scheme or use it as loan collateral.
'Close the vaccine gap': illegal migrants need help
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 27/06/2021
» The success of the national vaccination programme, which is seen as instrumental to creating herd immunity and reopening the country, depends on how inclusive it is.
Recruiters seek OK to place offshore ads
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 18/11/2019
» Disrupted by protective labour laws, overseas job placement firms have lobbied the Ministry of Labour to revise regulations to allow them to advertise job opportunities online to recruit job seekers in advance.
One-stop centres for fresh graduates
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 20/06/2018
» The Labour Ministry is planning to open one-stop work placement service centres in all regions nationwide with an ambitious target to find jobs for about 170,000 unemployed fresh university graduates.
New law sparks fears over drug price hikes
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 19/05/2017
» Pharmacists and health advocates have voiced opposition to a law that will cancel a regulation requiring state agencies to buy medical supplies from the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO).
Prayut vows better work conditions
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 02/05/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha marked May Day yesterday by vowing to make Thailand one of the most powerful Asean nations and promising to respond to calls by labour groups for better work conditions.
Farmers praise coup makers’ payment of overdue rice funds
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 27/05/2014
» Farmers have praised the coup-makers for paying long-overdue funds owed to them under the rice-pledging scheme.
Chalerm targets illegal labour
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 10/07/2013
» Labour Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has vowed to clamp down on business operators who hire illegal immigrants.