Floods affected 1 million workers
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Labour Protection and Welfare Department chief Arthit Isamo yesterday 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.
By December 26, a total of 2,156 establishments covering 307,948 workers were ready to resume work or remained closed due to flooding, whilst 26,523 other establishments with 685,996 workers managed to resume their operations.
The department offered employers the chance to sign an MoU that they wouldn’t lay off workers due to the flood and would pay the workers at least 75 per cent of salary – in exchange for the department providing them a Bt2,000perhead subsidy for three months. Arthit said 839 establishments with 241,902 workers applied for the project. The project committee initially approved 234 establishments with 88,706 workers joining it, he added.
Another project, in which factories outside floodaffected areas took in floodhit workers to work temporarily, saw 643 establishments in 48 provinces joining. The result saw 78,242 positions available and 13,226 floodhit workers filling the positions.
