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January 14, 1998 Bangkok Post:FOREI
- Subject: January 14, 1998 Bangkok Post:FOREI
- From: suriya@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:39:00
January 14, 1998
FOREIGN LABOUR
Plan to let aliens
work in only 13
provinces
Repatriation centre could be
established
Penchan Charoensutthiphan
Alien workers will be allowed in only 13 border provinces
before their repatriation under the Labour and Social Welfare
Ministry's operational plan to crack down on illegal foreign
labour.
Permanent Secretary Phan Chantraparn said the ministry's plan
to repatriate foreign workers would go to a subcommittee
tackling the problem of foreign labour chaired by Deputy Prime
Minister Bhichai Rattakul for consideration on Thursday, and to
a panel to ease unemployment chaired by Prime Minister Chuan
Leekpai on Monday.
Under the plan, the ministry will allow aliens to work only in
Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kanchanaburi, Ranong,
Chanthaburi, Trat, Sa Kaew, Mukdaharn, Nakhon Phanom,
Nong Khai, Ubon Ratchathani and Surin.
It will seriously crack down on illegal employment of alien
workers, and set up a centre to repatriate aliens without valid
work permits.
Aliens will not have their work permits renewed, and all renewals
made before the implementation of the ministry's plan will be
scrapped.
The ministry will oversee aliens at their workplaces and seek to
replace them with Thais, while immigration police will crack
down on illegal immigrants outside workplaces.
The ministry will also propose a special committee to formulate
policies to control employment of foreigners and illegal
immigrants and set up a system to keep coordination among
relevant agencies.
Out of 986,889 illegal immigrants in Thailand, 809,307 are
working without permits.