SOME 250,000 children of foreign migrant workers have no access to education in Thailand, the Ramajitti Institute said. “One main reason is that their parents are reluctant to send their children to school,” Julaporn Masathienwong, the institute’s director, said yesterday. According to her, many of these people are working in Thailand illegally and are worried […]
Flaws in the last minimum wage increase mean careful studies must be conducted before any similar policy is introduced in the future, according to the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). The 300-baht minimum wage policy, launched by the previous Yingluck Shinawatra government, did not improve workers’ financial status, said Yongyuth Chalamwong, a research director of […]
The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) has recommended the use of an amnesty to start foreign labour employment reforms and solving the labour shortage. TDRI research director for labour development Yongyuth Chalamwong claims the foreign labour employment problem and Thailand’s demotion to the US State Department’s lowest tier for human trafficking are inter-linked. “In past […]
Penchan Charoensuthipan Business needs workers, says tdri The junta has been urged to grant an amnesty to illegal migrant workers and set up job centres in border provinces in a bid to prevent middlemen reaping profits. Yongyuth Chalamwong, of the Thailand Development Research Institute, yesterday said the National Council for Peace and Order’s absolute power […]
The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) is looking beyond the here and now to warn labourers about the effects of economic problems and the prolonged political crisis while also warning that unemployment among university graduates may continue to rise. The TDRI said the prolonged and unresolved political situation had increasingly inflamed other issues in society […]
Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) TDRI Director of Labor Development looked beyond the here and now to warn laborers on the effects from economic problems and the prolonged political crisis while unemployment among university graduates may continually rise. The prolonged and unresolved political situation has increasingly driven the other problems in the Thai society, which […]
Yongyuth Chalamwong We Thais are fun loving yet hard working even in the industrial sector – the country’s current highest growth achiever among all economic sectors. We have been performing relatively well since the 1960s and became regarded as a newly industrialised country in the mid-80s. As a newly industrialised nation, we are planning to […]
Pathom Sangwongwanich Low-income earners turning to loan sharks Academics suggest the government implement relevant measures to curb the growing distress of workers suffering a drop in income as the cost of living rises, often forcing them to resort to loan sharks. Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) adviser Veerathai Santiprabhob said the drop in earnings reflects […]
Sriwipa Siripunyawit The political stand-offis dragging down labour demand, writes Thailand’s unemployment rate will likely rise following the political impasse that has taken a serious toll on the economy as well as public and private investment. This will add to the slight increase in unemployment in the past year due to the 300-baht minimum daily […]
If the political travesty is prolonged, it would definitely have a devastating effect on the economy and labour market, Yongyuth Chalamwong, research director for labour development at the Thailand Development Research Institute, warned yesterday. The TDRI and most economists believe that economic growth would likely be restrained by the political unrest, sluggish exports, and weak […]
Chatrudee Theparat Political turmoil may increase the unemployment rate this year to 1% of the workforce, up from 0.7-0.8% reported in 2013. The protests could delay fresh investments in both the public and private sectors, said Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) vice-chairman Thanit Sorat. ”It is quite clear that Thailand will not have a new […]
Sriwipa Siripunyawit Government-mandated increase has led to lay-offs amid a labour shortage and even lower earnings. It was just another morning when Somporn, a 40-year-old worker in a ceramics plant, awoke to find she had lost the job she had held for several years. In fact, she’d anticipated this day would come, as the plant […]
