The Ministry of Labour aims to send 100,000 Thai labourers overseas this fiscal year, with the latest batch having left for Israel on Thursday.
The coronavirus hit Thai labour exports by a whopping 71% from March to December last year compared with figures for the same period in 2019, when 94,994 Thais landed jobs overseas.
Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin said on Thursday the ministry hoped to send 100,000 workers overseas in the current fiscal year, which officially began on Oct 1.
From October to December last year, 9,920 people went to work overseas.
The latest batch of 210 Thais flew to Israel yesterday on the Thailand-Israel Cooperation on the Placement of Workers (TIC) programme.
Mr Suchart said the labour export target was divided into two groups.
About 89,000 people were sent overseas by brokers or Thai employers for temporary jobs or training…
