| 29 Nov 10 | Foreign skills seen as opportunity, not threat -- Importing foreign skilled workers should be seen as an opportunity for exchanging knowledge to raise Thailand's competitiveness rather than a threat, says Labour Minister Chalermchai Sri-on. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Nov 10 | Training workers for the growing meetings industry -- The Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions industry - known as MICE - is growing in Thailand. The problem is the country still lacks qualified human resources to support this growth. That's why educational institutes are being engaged to help resolve the problem. ( The Nation ) |
| 23 Nov 10 | Birth-control measures planned for migrant workers -- The Labour Ministry said it was focusing on the boom of children born to migrant workers, with the Social Development and Human Security Ministry saying such children were prone to be victimised by human trafficking due to their illegal residence. ( The Nation ) |
| 22 Nov 10 | Foreign labourers' wages docked to fund expulsions -- Foreign labourers will have their wages docked next year as part of a Labour Ministry policy to force them to contribute to the cost of sending illegal foreign workers back to their home countries. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 12 Nov 10 | Illegal foreign workers: swept under the carpet for too long -- It was about the employment of foreign workers. But what was surprising was that for the first time it appeared in four languages �" Thai, Lao, Cambodian and Burmese. In effect, Thai employers and their workers of these three nationalities know the necessity of foreign labour registration. ( The Nation ) |
| 10 Nov 10 | CAT threatens legal action against frequency bill -- Yesterday representatives of CAT and TOT labour unions submitted a letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva demanding that the House of Representatives delete Section 84 (3) of the bill governing the formulation of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). The unions also asked Abhisit to have the Constitution Court rule on whether the clause is unconstitutional. ( The Nation ) |
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