THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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Migrant workers handed complaints-and-training lifeline during virus crisis

Migrant workers handed complaints-and-training lifeline during virus crisis

The Labour Protection Network Foundation (LPN) and Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) say they are adapting their complaints and online training platform for migrant workers, to promote human rights under the “new normal”.

Migrant workers handed complaints-and-training lifeline during virus crisis

For the past three years, LPN’s Labour Hotline has served as a complaints channel which also provides human rights training to both Thai and migrant workers. It equips CPF's workers with knowledge of labour laws, safety and occupational rules and the company’s best practices.

In line with CPF’s strict safety and epidemic-prevention measures on production lines, LPN this year is carrying out online training and dormitory visits. Off-hour Focus Group conversations outside the workplace encourage workers to express their opinions and raise questions on life adjustments and cultural differences, said CPF.

LPN also hosts training for migrant workers at the countries of origin in Cambodia and Myanmar.

“At pre-employment training prior to the start of their service, workers are given basic information on workplace and living conditions in Thailand, their rights and welfare, said LPN director Sompong Srakaew.

All migrant workers are also introduced to LPN’s complaints hotline, he added.

The services are a prototype collaboration between the private sector and civil society. The aim is to ensure workers’ welfare and assure global consumers that their products come from the supply chain that honours international labour standards, say LPN and CPF.

CPF had taken a good care of all workers’ health, resulting on zero infections during the Covid-19 outbreak, said Sompong. Meanwhile, CPF supplied LPN with fresh eggs and drinking water for distribution to needy migrant workers who lost their jobs or suffered pay cuts during the outbreak, he added.

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