The Labour Minister’s Advisor commenced the labour volunteer networks empowerment project to solve drug problems, labour trafficking, and integration with the Ministry of Labour in Sakon Nakhon province for 2020. The project aims at the development of labour volunteers, labour missions, the prevention of drug problems in the workplace, and is a network to monitor labour trafficking. At present, the province has a total of 125 volunteer workers at every sub-district level. The event took place at the Phu Phan Development Study Center in Sakon Nakhon.
On February 14, 2020, at 09.20 hours, Advisor to the Labour Minister Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jak Punchoopet presided over the commencement of the labour volunteer network empowerment project to resolve drug problems, labour trafficking, and integration with the Ministry of Labour in Sakon Nakhon province for 2020. The event took place at the Phu Phan Development Study Center in Sakon Nakhon province. He said that volunteers are essential players in the operations in all areas, whether it is public health, community development, disaster prevention, and mitigation, protecting the environment, security, justice, or labour. Each department will appoint volunteers to help with all operations. It can be considered that volunteers are people with great sacrifice, as volunteers are people who sacrifice their time that should be spent as a career or time from their personal and family lives. They are essential people to the development of the country and a significant force to work with both government and private organizations to help people who are suffering. He further commended all labour volunteers, because being a volunteer requires public and generous spirit, by joining the Ministry of Labour and acting as a medium for cooperation and surveillance on unfair labour practices. Labour volunteers help liaise with government agencies under the Ministry of Labour and the people who experience labour issues in the community and society. They monitor unfair labour practices of using foreign workers in the area, launch awareness campaigns, and strengthen immunity in drug prevention among employees, in workplaces with less than ten employees, be aware of drug problems. They also give information about the current situation and event to the agencies under the Ministry of Labour prompting to resolve issues quickly.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jak said that he would like to encourage everyone to study and exchange experiences from speakers and cooperate in various activities of the training for development. This will help the volunteers themselves and labour missions. When the training is finished, he said he encouraged the volunteers to apply their knowledge to perform in their duties, which will benefit the people, villages, communities, and families more efficiently and effectively.
The labour volunteer network empowerment project aims to enhance knowledge about labour, which will be beneficial to labour services provided by the labour volunteer network. It also aims to integrate labour volunteers between departments under the Ministry of Labour and exchange working experiences resulting in the development of operational guidelines that respond to government policies, the Ministry of Labour, and provinces efficiently, with maximum effectiveness. At present, Sakon Nakhon Province has 125 sub-district labour volunteers in all 125 sub-districts.
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