Samut Sakhon prepares emergency plan for workforce
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With Samut Sakhon braced for flooding, the Labour Ministry has joined forces with business operators to find eight temporary shelters to support 300,000 Thai workers and some 200,000 immigrant workers, in order to prevent a repeat of Ayutthaya's flood woe
Labour Minister Phadermchai Sasomsap Thursday commented on the worker-assistance measures in Samut Sakhon, which will soon receive floodwater runoff from Bangkok.
He said that Labour Ministry permanent secretary Somkiat Chayasriwong and his team visited the province Thursday and met business operators at the two Samut Sakhon industrial estates, which employ some 500,000600,000 workers in total.
The operators would find shelters for Thai workers, while the ministry would send immigrant workers to existing shelters in various provinces, he added.
The Nation
