Academics are urging the government to provide better welfare protection for informal workers whose livelihoods have been adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Low turnout for migrant registration
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published : 17 Jan 2021 at 05:00
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The number of workers who submitted the required paperwork on the first day of migrant worker registration was fewer than expected but the Labour Ministry s Employment Department insists it is satisfied with the figure of 11,000 who enrolled via its online portal, a seminar was told on Friday.
One migrant worker, Khang Min Lwin, told the virtual seminar there were only 640 people registering with the department online on the first day of registration on Friday.
Khang, a Myanmar worker at a factory in Samut Prakan, said many migrant workers were employed in Thailand but few had the money to pay for registration.