Over 993,000 workers affected from flooding
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Labour Protection and Welfare Department chief Arthit Isamo Thursday revealed that 28,679 business establishments in 29 provinces were affected by the flood disaster from October 1December 26 last year, affecting 993,944 workers.
As of December 26, 2011, a total of 2,156 establishments covering 307,948 workers could resume work or remained close due to flood, whilst 26,523 other establishments with 685,996 workers managed to resume their operations.
As the department had a project for employers to sign MoU that they wouldn’t lay off workers due to flood and would pay the workers at least 75 per cent of salary – in exchange of the department providing them the Bt2,000perhead subsidy for three months, he said 839 establishments with 241,902 workers applied for the project.
The Nation
