Construction workers are pictured aboard a pickup truck in Min Buri district, Bangkok, in 2019. (File photo)
Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin has ordered the Department of Employment to swiftly enforce the law against the rising number of migrant workers taking up jobs reserved for Thai citizens.
The move follows instructions by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to closely regulate foreign workers. From October last year to Monday, authorities raided 14,104 workplaces nationwide and found 600 migrant workers violated the reserved jobs rules.
The ministry has run checks on 196,402 migrant workers. Out of the 600 workers who had taken up restricted jobs, 264 were from Myanmar, 121 from Cambodia, 97 from Laos, 39 from Vietnam, 51…
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