The Labour Ministry has outlined the steps required to register illegal migrants from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar under the government’s workers amnesty programme, which officially commences on Friday.
Both employed and unemployed migrant workers are eligible for the scheme approved by the cabinet on Dec 29 last year, which was mainly designed to help monitor migrant workers’ conditions in the country in the wake of a second Covid-19 wave that has spread to over 50 provinces.
Once registered, a worker will be entitled to stay and work in Thailand for two years — along with a dependent, who must already be in Thailand and less than 18 years of age at the time of registration.
Describing the registration as an “extraordinary” measure, Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin said the scheme will not only help the government limit the spread of Covid-19 in the country, it…
