On August 5, 2020, at 13.00 hours, Permanent Secretary of Labour Mr. Suthi Sukosol presided over the seminar to expand the operations of informal workers into the community for the 2020 fiscal year. The event took place at the Chao Phraya Ballroom, 2nd floor, Chaopraya Park Hotel, Bangkok. He said that from the Covid-19 pandemic that has been ongoing since the end of 2019, it is evident that informal workers are a large population that has been greatly impacted in terms of occupation, income, and lifestyle. In addition, formal workers are more likely to convert to informal workers, which can be seen from the reduction in the number of insured persons under Section 33. To ensure informal workers have access to the rights and services of government agencies and private organizations, the Ministry of Labour cannot work alone. It requires the participation of all departments from the community and district level, to the provincial level cooperation and networking from the public sector that is involved. This is very important to the Ministry of Labour’s mission to truly deliver services for promoting, protecting, and developing informal workers in community areas.
The Ministry of Labor is in the process of lifting the draft act on improving the quality of life for informal workers BE…. The main principle is to ensure informal workers have access to the basic rights to work under safe conditions, social security, and registration. Furthermore, it is important for them to be able to form as an organization, be promoted, protected, and developed for a good quality of life. This will help reduce social inequality and increase access to basic social services of the government in order to lead Thailand towards stability, prosperity, and sustainability, in accordance with the 20-year National Strategy on creating opportunities and social equality.
The seminar to expand the work of informal workers into the community area in 2020, had 190 participants; 40 were from the central part, and 150 from regional areas, whereby 75 were staff from Provincial Labour Offices 75 people with 75 volunteers.
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