| 30 Jan 09 | Registration of foreign workers to be delayed -- The registration of thousands of foreign workers is being delayed in a bid to keep jobs open for Thais as an economic slump looms, Labour Minister Paitoon Kaewthong says. ( The Nation ) |
| 30 Jan 09 | Union calls for end to expensive perks -- The Thai Airways International union is calling for an end to travel perks for former board members and their families which cost the airline more than 100 million baht a year. ( The Nation ) |
| 29 Jan 09 | Some Japanese workers fly back home -- Some Japanese companies in Thailand have started to send their Japanese staff back home, in what is a first cost-cutting step as they struggle to maintain their local operations in the current economic crisis. The global economic downturn has prompted Japanese companies here to focus on reducing production and labour costs amid deteriorating sales and profits this year, the head of the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) Bangkok said yesterday. ( The Nation ) |
| 29 Jan 09 | Cabinet extends measure to cover those laid off last month -- The Cabinet yesterday approved a number of measures to ease the financial burden of individuals, including the extension of unemployment benefits from six to eight months to cover those laid off between last month and next December. ( The Nation ) |
| 29 Jan 09 | PMH to press hospitals on medical workers' pay increases -- The Public Health Ministry has come up with a resolution to increase the fixed allowances for all medical workers, doctors, and nurses across country. ( The Nation ) |
| 28 Jan 09 | Somchai insists on SSF cuts -- The Labour Ministry will go ahead with the plan to cut employees and employers' Social Security Fund contributions to 2.5% despite opposition from labour organisations, says permanent secretary Somchai Chumrat. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 27 Jan 09 | ILO foresees painful cuts in wages -- The global economic crisis is expected to lead to painful cuts in the wages of millions of workers worldwide in 2009, according to a new report published today by the International Labour Office (ILO). ( The Nation ) |
| 24 Jan 09 | SSO accused of frittering away B10bn a year budget -- The Social Security Office has been accused of wasting the 10 billion baht a year management budget from the Social Security Fund. ( Bangkok Post ) |
| 23 Jan 09 | Onestop service centres to help those recently laid off -- The Labour Ministry will set up onestop service centres in all provinces to help those recently laid off. From January 119, 35 businesses folded, throwing 1,950 workers out of a job, Somchai Chumrat, permanent secretary of the ministry, said yesterday. ( The Nation ) |
| 23 Jan 09 | Rice distribution to be axed -- Facing criticism from many sides, Labour Minister Phaithoon Kaeothong yesterday said he might cancel a Bt1billion Social Security Office (SSO) project to distribute 5 kilograms of rice per worker. ( The Nation ) |
| 22 Jan 09 | Labour minister scraps rice programme for social security recipients -- BANGKOK, Jan 22 (TNA) - After a barrage of criticism from the public and the media, Thailand's Minister of Labour Phaithoon Kaeothong said on Thursday he had scrapped a plan to offer five kilogrammes of rice to each of 9.3 million people insured by the government's Social Security Fund. ( MCOT News ) |
| 22 Jan 09 | Unions say free rice is a bad idea -- Labour advocates have objected to plans by the Social Security Office to buy Bt1.5 billion worth of rice for nine million workers and to reduce contributions to the fund by both workers and employers. ( The Nation ) |
| 22 Jan 09 | PHM to shuffle temporary staff to ease medical worker shortage -- The Public Health Ministry plans to put over 16,000 temporarily employed health care workers into civil service positions in a bid to resolve the shortage of medical workers, Minister Wittaya Keawparadai said yesterday. ( The Nation ) |
| 21 Jan 09 | Help centers for workers to be set up nationwide -- Up to 40,000 permanent workers in the auto parts industry are at risk of losing jobs as car assembly production dropped by an estimated 40% this month, according to Damri Sukhotanang, the permanent secretary of the Industry Ministry. ( The Nation ) |
| 21 Jan 09 | Seagate to lay off up to 800 local workers -- At least 6% of Seagate Technology Inc's 13,000 employees in Thailand will be laid off as part of a global workforce reduction by the world's top hard-disk drive (HDD) maker. The company is currently offering a voluntary retrenchment programme to the 13,000 people who work at its factories in Nakhon Ratchasima and Theparak district in Samut Prakan. ( Bangkok Post ) |
| 21 Jan 09 | Seagate launches ER programme to shed 600 workers -- Seagate Technology (Thailand) Co Ltd has launched the early retirement programme at its manufacturing plant in Nakhon Ratchasima, targeting to trim workforce by 600, according to a human resource official. ( The Nation ) |
| 21 Jan 09 | Fund contributions to be halved -- The Social Security Board has agreed to halve both workers' and employers' monthly contributions to the Social Security Fund to 2.5%. ( Bangkok Post ) |
| 21 Jan 09 | Fund proposed for 70% of retirees without savings -- Seventy per cent of Thai labourers might not be able to retire if the government does not implement measures to assist them, according to a recent study by Chulalongkorn University (CU). ( The Nation ) |
| 20 Jan 09 | Labour groups resist social security fund idea -- Organised labour vehemently opposes the proposed cut in workers' contributions to the social security fund, Inchuan Khankham, a member of the Social Security Board, said yesterday. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 19 Jan 09 | Hospital workers threaten strike -- More than 90,000 contract employees of all government hospitals across the country have threatened to stage a nationwide strike if their demands for a pay rise and welfare benefits are not met. ( The Nation ) |
| 18 Jan 09 | Workerswant more benefits help -- Workers nearing retirement age are calling for law changes to the Social Security Fund to give them access to unemployment compensation. ( Bangkok Post ) |
| 18 Jan 09 | 50 workers rushed to hospitals following ammonia leakage -- Pathum Thani - Some 50 workers were rushed to hospitals Saturday night following ammonia leakage at their foods processing factory. ( The Nation ) |
| 18 Jan 09 | Labour Ministry hosts job fair -- The Labour ministry is hosting Saturday meetings between job-seekers and prospective employers until March 28. ( The Nation ) |
| 16 Jan 09 | Unemployment to hit 1.4m if economy stays flat: BoT -- BANGKOK, Jan 16 (TNA) – Thailand's number of jobless people will increase to 1.4 million or 3.7 per cent of the workforce in the worst-case scenario if the country's economic growth stays flat this year, according to the Bank of Thailand (BoT). ( MCOT News ) |
| 13 Jan 09 | 698 plants shut down in 2008 -- A number of 698 plants shut down in 2008, affecting 55,549 jobs, according to the Labour Ministry's labour watch centre. ( The Nation ) |
| 13 Jan 09 | Labour submits measures to help labourers -- The Labour Ministry will submit 18 projects to the Cabinet on Tuesday, plus an extra scheme to pay allowances of Bt2,000 a year to all 9.3 million members of the Social Security Fund. The scheme would require a budget of nearly Bt19 billion. ( The Nation ) |
| 12 Jan 09 | Employee may get monthly allowance of Bt2,000 -- The Labour Ministry is planning to pay a monthly allowance of Bt2,000 to every employee earning less than Bt20,000 a month. ( The Nation ) |
| 09 Jan 09 | SSO to consider cut in social security contribution -- Labour Permanent Secretary Somchai Chumrat, as chairman of the Social Security Office, said on Friday that the SSO board would discuss the proposed cut in corporate and workers' contributions to the Social Security Fund, as a measure to help employers. ( The Nation ) |
| 09 Jan 09 | Government plans fund for informal-sector workers -- BANGKOK, Jan 9 (TNA) - In an effort to help low-income workers not entitled to social security fund benefits, Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said on Friday that the Thai government will set up a fund for some 37 million workers in the informal sector. ( MCOT News ) |
| 09 Jan 09 | BAAC backs new B10bn unemployment aid fund -- Laid-off workers and unemployed new graduates can seek financial assistance from a new 10-billion-baht loan programme initiated by the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives. ( Bangkok Post ) |
| 08 Jan 09 | SCB chief concerned over rising unemployment -- BANGKOK, Jan 8 (TNA) – Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) executive chairman Vichit Surapongchai on Wednesday expressed concern over increasing unemployment in the country, saying it remains unclear whether the amount of money the government set aside from the budget to help jobless people is sufficient. ( MCOT News ) |
| 08 Jan 09 | Over 600 workers in Nakhon Ratchasima laid off -- NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Jan 8 (TNA) - After experiencing global economic recession and declining purchase orders from overseas, two major foreign firms producing auto and electronics parts laid off 623 of their employees Thursday with severance pay. ( MCOT News ) |
| 07 Jan 09 | Farmers, jobless first in line -- The Council of Economic Ministers today will consider key elements of an urgent, comprehensive stimulus package. ( The Nation ) |
| 07 Jan 09 | Economic ministers approve Bt5 billion to help 500,000 jobless -- BANGKOK, Jan 7 (TNA) - Falling economic growth and rising unemployment in Thailand's private sector due to the global economic recession have led Thai economic ministers Wednesday to give a green light on allocating about Bt5.2 billion to help over 500,000 jobless people expected to officially register with the government, said Labour Minister Phaithoon Kaeothong. ( MCOT News ) |
| 06 Jan 09 | Over 50,000 employees left jobless in past year -- BANGKOK, Jan 6 (TNA) – More than 50,000 employees have been left jobless in the past year, according to the latest figures released by Thailand's Labour Welfare and Protection Department. ( MCOT News ) |
| 05 Jan 09 | OHEC to ask for 2.4-billion budget to help new graduates -- Bangkok (Manager Online) - The Office of Higher Education Comission (OHEC) planned to ask for 2.4 billion baht of budget to help new graduates during the economic crisis. ( Manager Online ) |
| 17 Jan 09 | SSO share deal faces probe -- The Labour Ministry has ordered a preliminary inquiry into alleged irregularities involving a 2006 share purchase by the Social Security Office which cost it 300 million baht. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 11 Jan 09 | Investment opportunity in Thailand is limited : investors -- Investment opportunities are more limited in Thailand than countries like Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia partly because of the government's tight con¬trol on infrastructure investment and the political uncertainty, investors and economists said yesterday. ( The Nation ) |
| 10 Jan 09 | A Workplace with a difference -- Within the renovated Green Elephant Building inside the Siam Cement Group (SCG) compound there is a company headquarters where workers are truly treated as if they were at home. There are sofas, refrigerators and liquid-crystal-display television sets and Mama instant noodles or ice cream are ready to be served to staff. There is also a lounge for employees and their guests, with comfortable seating, a piano, a Boss home-theatre system - even a wine cellar. ( The Nation ) |
| 10 Jan 09 | Firms in govt programme to continue hiring -- The 80 financially ailing companies that are participating in the government's careertraining programme can continue hiring 50,000 workers, Deputy Prime Minister Korbsak Sabhavasu said yesterday. ( The Nation ) |
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