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A shortage of skilled workers in the hospitality industry is hitting the tourism sector at a time when it is seeing an upswing in business and is threatening to get worse by the end of the year.

As the sun rose over another day on the outskirts of the Indian capital of New Delhi, construction worker Yogendra Tundre squatted beside a tap for a shower before heading to work.

Two government agencies will work with a private firm to recruit and train workers with advanced skills to secure employment for them in Saudi Arabia.

In Sri Lanka, after a month of picking more than 18 kg (40 lb) of tea leaves each day, Arulappan Ideijody and her husband receive about 30,000 rupees. The amount is currently worth about $80 after the island nation devalued its currency. Their earnings allow the family to eat only one meal per day.

The Labour Ministry on Thursday warned employers of workers from Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos to renew their registrations by the end of this month.

The Khon Kaen labour employment office said that Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin has instructed Department of Employment officials nationwide to start training Thai workers for jobs in Saudi Arabia. 

Three workers were killed when a scaffold collapsed at a construction site of a hotel at the One Bangkok project on Rama IV Road in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei district, Italian Thai Development (ITD), which is responsible for the project, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Hun Sen requested that South Korea increase the quota for Cambodian migrant workers and continue to promote their health and well-being while employed there

Workers in the agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors face the risk of being unemployed in the near future due to a decline in working hours of between 0-24 hours per week, according to a National Statistical Office (NSO) survey on employment in the fourth quarter of 2021.

The paltry wages paid to many workers in Laos is the main reason why numerous skilled workers continue to seek jobs in neighbouring countries, according to Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Mr Phongxaysack Intharat.

Thailand and Saudi Arabia will strengthen cooperation in labour and Riyadh is seeking foreign support in tourism management, Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin said after bilateral discussions with Ahmad bin Sulaiman Alrajhi, Saudi Minister of Human Resources.

France will make working from home compulsory three days a week to contain the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant.