News Forum - Building trouble: Chinese workers nailed for illegal jobs in Bangkok

[Thaiger]

Bangkok police officers arrested five Chinese nationals for working illegally as construction workers. They were earning 2,200 baht per day, significantly higher than Thailand’s minimum wage and the standard pay rate for legal construction workers. Officers from Huay Kwang Police Station received a complaint about illegal Chinese workers at a construction site in the Huay … …

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[BainaiThai]

The high wages offered to illegal Chinese workers raised questions among Thai netizens as to why the construction contractor chose to employ illegal workers at such a high rate instead of hiring legal Thai workers.

And the answer is?????

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16 hours ago, BainaiThai said:

The high wages offered to illegal Chinese workers raised questions among Thai netizens as to why the construction contractor chose to employ illegal workers at such a high rate instead of hiring legal Thai workers.

And the answer is?????

There are many good reasons to pay higher than average wages to ones employees... however this being  a Thailand and China interaction I doubt that these reasons would be the motivation to do so... my guess is that there is a scheme being played out that is nefarious.