News Forum - Thailand aims to employ army of 150,000 migrant workers to solve labour shortage

[Thaiger]

Thailand is looking to bring in more labourers from neighbouring countries with the help of recruitment agencies, as the government seeks to employ an army of around 150,000 foreign workers to make up for the country’s low percentage of people willing to do manual labour jobs. But the general public is worried about the clutter and spread of Covid-19 from migrant workers, sparking a debate about immigration procedures. The labour ministry is attempting to solve the shortage in labour in two ways. The first is to use the labour memorandum of understanding procedure, or MoU, to bring in people from […]

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[Skip]

So there is no labor shortage... just a shortage of people willing to work for their living... sounds like the USA.

[thjames]

1 hour ago, Skip said:

So there is no labor shortage... just a shortage of people willing to work for their living... sounds like the USA.

replace USA with rest of the world!   

do these workers work for so much less?  or seriously no one available to work?   im naive but there "appears" to be millions of thais not working... 

[Poolie]

Just replace USA.....................with anything.............

[palooka]

Migrants they can pay less than Thais legally.

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

On 4/11/2022 at 6:08 PM, Thaiger said:

Thailand is looking to bring in more labourers from neighbouring countries with the help of recruitment agencies,

The same agencies that send many Thai to many places around the world (with Saudi Arabia next on the list) to do their menial labour?  

[TheDirtyDurian]

2 hours ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

The same agencies that send many Thai to many places around the world (with Saudi Arabia next on the list) to do their menial labour?  

I was speaking to a Saudi colleague the other day, talking about domestic help. He had been talking to his father who had a car workshop back in the 80s and remembered how they were such good workers. 

He thought he would get the same for his house. I pointed out that hardly any Thais would go there for Pinay wages, and they wouldn't speak  English either. 

The only Thais going to Saudi will be Semi-Skilled workers and I'd imagine 25k+ bare minimum before it becomes attractive. No Thai will go there for 12k, work domestic, and be a semi slave.