Thousands of workers training overseas
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More than 5,800 employees of flood-hit businesses have been assigned to travel overseas to receive skills training in the past three months through the co-ordination of the Department of Employment, director-general Prawit Khiangphol said yesterday.
Japan hosts the largest number of trainees, at 4,987, while the remainder are training or will train in another 103 countries, including seven in the US, six in Singapore, 284 in China and four in the United Arab Emirates, Prawit said.
There are now 147,365 post-flood job vacancies, including 16,000 overseas, he said, adding that all 5,855 workers processed their travel through legal job-placement companies or with the help of the department.
In 2011, 90,237 Thai workers secured jobs overseas, 60,949 of them in Asian countries.
