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The Royal Gazette website on Sunday published an announcement from the Ministry of Finance allowing employees and employers to suspend or postpone contributing to the provident fund due to financial crisis, public disasters or events that affect the economic situation.

The Social Security Office will compensate employees who are forced to stop working due to the fresh Covid-19 outbreak at 50 per cent of their daily wages for a maximum 90 days.

SINGAPORE - Some employers in the private sector plan to not pay any bonuses to their staff this year. This is similar to the Government announcing there would be no bonus paid to civil servants at the year's end, given the weakened economic outlook caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Workers at a factory in Samut Prakan suddenly learned they were jobless halfway into their shift on Tuesday, and a photograph of them embracing each other for comfort went viral on the net.

Minor International (MINT) may have to lay off its employees for the second time and temporarily close some hotels that had previously resumed operations due to the impact of Covid-19 on tourism.

Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin said he has ordered agencies under the ministry to closely monitor a move by Wingspan Services, a subcontractor providing human resources management services for Thai Airways International, terminating more than 2,500 employees due to the impact of Covid-19.

Bangkok Expressway and Metro (BEM) has hired 100 part-time employees to clean frequently touched objects inside stations and trains to create confidence among commuters using the services.

In a Facebook post on Thursday (April 9), Katerut Laothamatas, spokesman for the Action Coalition for Thailand Party, called on Labour Minister Chatu Mongkol Sonakul to urgently consider compensating the employees of businesses that have been ordered to close in line with moves to control the spread of Covid-19.

Organisations that have benefited from the Covid-19 situation are bucking the trend and recruiting staff.

International air travel from the United States has all but ceased. But hundreds of front-line workers sit side by side in small cubicles processing passport applications for the State Department, even as health authorities implore Americans to stay home.

The Department of Labour Protection and Welfare has clarified several issues involving the benefits and rights of employees affected by the outbreak of the new coronavirus or Covid-19.