PUBLISHED : 6 Oct 2024 at 05:08
More than 2,000 foreign nationals have been arrested for illegal work in Thailand over the past three months, according to the Labour Ministry.
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PUBLISHED : 6 Oct 2024 at 05:08
More than 2,000 foreign nationals have been arrested for illegal work in Thailand over the past three months, according to the Labour Ministry.
Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said that since the ministry launched a campaign to inspect workplaces employing migrant workers nationwide under the theme “finding, arresting, and extraditing,” progress has been made.
From June 5 to Oct 2, officials inspected 20,152 outlets employing 277,770 migrant workers.
The largest group of migrant workers consists of 209,435 Myanmar nationals, followed by 42,766 Cambodians, 16,481 Laotians, 181 Vietnamese, and 8,907 from other nationalities.
Out of 20,152 workplaces, 844 were found to be employing illegal immigrant…