Govt may become lenient on migrants
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The Labour Ministry will be asking the Cabinet to give employers another three months before making migrant workers part of the legal system.
The ministry’s permanent secretary Somkiat Chayasriwong disclosed the measure Thursday after emerging from a meeting with representatives of the Federation of Thai Industries and the Thai Chamber of Commerce.
These representatives expressed concerns about labour shortage, if the government went ahead with deporting more than 300,000 alien workers who have failed to get their nationality verified by December 14.
Somkiat said the ministry now planned to ask the Cabinet to be lenient and give employers three more months to complete the process of registration and nationality verification for their alien workers.
The Nation
