The Labour Minister showed concern for construction camp workers in quarantine following COVID-19 prevention measures. He assigned the Department of Labor Protection and Welfare’s Deputy Director-General to join forces with the private sector to help workers in the Phasi Charoen area, providing food to alleviate the suffering of construction camp workers under the “sharing kindness to fight COVID-19” activities.
Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin said with the escalating COVID-19 situation, the Ministry of Labour is concerned about the workforce, especially construction camp workers in quarantine, following the CCSA’s decision to close the worker camps in the dark red provinces for a month. The Ministry of Labour’s measures to help affected construction camp workers include working with the private sector in delivering food, drinks, and necessary goods to the construction worker camps. This is a supplementary measure, in addition to the Ministry of Labour’s request for employers to take care of all three meals for workers and the payment of unemployment benefits in case of unemployment at the rate of 50 percent of wages. Today, food boxes were delivered from Mr. Nattakit Rungjaroon, representative of Saha Farm International Co., Ltd., who supported the delivery of 300 food boxes daily for five days, totaling 1,500 boxes. The Labour Minister assigned the Deputy Director-General of the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, Mrs. Sopa Kieatnircha, to deliver the food boxes to the construction camp workers to help alleviate the suffering. At the same time, she asked the workers to be confident that the Ministry of Labour will not abandon them and will stand to help workers and overcome this crisis together.
The Deputy Director-General of the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare, Mrs. Sopa Kieatnircha, added that the Department of Welfare has continued to help construction camp workers through the “sharing kindness to fight COVID-19” activities that have been ongoing since the beginning of July. Today, the department has gone to the area to donate 150 sets of food boxes and consumer goods to construction workers in the Phasi Charoen area, at two sites under the responsibility of the Bangkok Labour Protection and Welfare Office Area 7. The sites included the construction workers camp at The Key Building by Siam System Build Co., Ltd., with 82 people, and the construction workers camp at the Metro Village Construction Project by Property P Perfect PCL with 38 people. In addition, they visited the area to distribute food boxes to the people in the Khlong Lat Phachi community, where over 150 people lost their jobs and had to remain in quarantine. Mrs. Chaweewan Trakultham, chairman of the community, was the recipient of the food boxes. In this regard, the department has assigned agencies under its jurisdiction to urgently assist workers in the red zone areas until the COVID-19 pandemic ends.
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Division of Public Relations
26 July 2021
