QuelleThe Labour Ministry plans to import workers from Bangladesh and Indonesia as Thailand cannot get enough legal workers from nearby countries such as Burma, Laos and Cambodia.
Permanent secretary of the ministry, Somkiat Chayasriwong, said the ministry's committee on alien workers wants to bring in Bangladeshi workers to replace illegal workers from Burma, Laos and Cambodia who fail to register.
Bangladeshi workers will be another option for Thai operators who need more labour and to help solve security problems in the country where there is a growing number of illegal alien workers.
Mr Somkiat said the legal import of workers from Burma, Laos and Cambodia is subject to complicated procedures and regulations in their countries.
Bangladesh is more ready to supply labour as the country exports as many as 10 million workers.
The panel plans to import labourers, construction workers and maids from the country.
Thailand informed Burma that it wanted 100,000 workers but the country could supply only 1,803 workers. He said the supply was meagre compared with the demand.
Mr Somkiat said the alien labour committee would propose the import of workers from Indonesia later.
Regarding about 200,000 alien workers who failed to register for their work permits, the Labour Ministry had already asked relevant authorities to arrest them, he said.
Meanwhile, Adisorn Kerdmongkol, of the Action Network for Migrants, said alien workers were normally placed in fishery and related jobs and the labour import from Bangladesh would not serve local demands because people from that country "did not like jobs" in the fishery business. He suggested workers from Indonesia and southern China suit fishery and related jobs.
Jetzt wird die Immigration dann bald hergehen und die Jobs in vier Bereiche teilen:
1.) Jobs, die nur Thais machen "duerfen" (wird kuenftig "wollen" heissen)
2.) Jobs mit Ausnahmegenehmigung (wo Thais nicht wirklich wissen, ob sie wollen aber koennten)
3.) Jobs, die Thais (noch) nicht koennen
4.) Jobs, auf die Thais definitiv keinen Bock haben
Allerdings waere es noch zu erweitern um
5.) Jobs, die Thais meinen zu koennen, dem aber definitiv nicht so ist