On August 31, 2018, at 10.00 am, General Pravit Wongsuwan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense presided over the meeting of the Committee on the Policy on Managing Foreign Workers and Trafficking in Human Trafficking No.1 / 2018 at the Meeting Room, 5th Floor, Ministry of Labor Building, with H.E. Police General Adul Sangsingkeo, Ministry of Labour, Mr. Jarin Chakkaphark, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour, and the Board of Representatives from various agencies attended the meeting. In this regard, the committee has considered ways to tackle the shortage of fishery workers include opportunities for Vietnamese migrant workers to work under the MOU.
Police General Adullae said after the meeting. Alien work and shortage of labor in the fisheries sector is subject to change. The lack of reporting and uncontrolled fishing (IUU) has to be handled with care by General Pravit. The government has been instructed to know and implement the resolution of the meeting. The Ministry of Labor is assigned as the main unit to coordinate. The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives by the Department of Fisheries brought the results of the meeting to the Cabinet to agree to a solution to the shortage of labor in the fisheries sector and make security departments aware. Understanding how to tackle shortages of labor in the fisheries sector. The meeting agreed to tackle the shortage of fishery workers in three ways as proposed by the Ministry of Labor. Currently, 53,649 people are currently in shortage, allowing foreign migrant workers from Cambodia, Lao PDR, to hold passports or the originating country document to work in the sea fishing for one year using the Seabook as a work permit.
“In addition, the meeting also considered allowing Vietnamese migrant workers who illegally work in Thailand to leave the Kingdom. If they wish to work back into the MOU system and increase the type of work to be done, other than the Director of Construction and Marine Fisheries, you will work as a laborer in every business as well as foreign workers in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar,” Gen. Adul said in the end.
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