Workers allege employment agency swindled them
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Some 200 workers from the Northeast on Monday urged Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tarit Pengdith to investigate a Chaiyaphum-based employment agency.
They alleged it collected tens of thousands of baht in “commission” from each of about 500 workers employed to pick berries in Sweden from July 24-September 27.
About 200 of the workers did not make as much money as promised, group representative Somsak Sameursap said.
Worker Nitipon Jaikhong said he paid Bt20,000 in visa fees and another Bt75,000 for the company’s “commission”, but there too many workers at the site and too few berries to pick. He also had to pay a lot for accommodation, transport and meals in Sweden, he said, and eventually returned to his home empty-handed and with more debts than when he left.
