September 13 (NMG) According to a letter from job recruiting department of Mae Hong Song district to the employers, foreign labors in Thailand particularly Burmese, Laotian and Cambodians are to be replaced by Thai workers.

The holders in several work places of the work-permit ID cards that will be expired on September 25 will not be able to extend and Thai nationals will be recruited and replaced in these places, the letter signed by an official from job replacement department said earlier this month.

The employers were instructed to send foreign workers who were in the list to the nearest police stations or check-points in the respective townships.

The job list of foreign workers that will replaced by Thai workforces are laundry, beauty parlor, hotel, restaurant, groceries, car servicing, consumer goods factory, pet shop, computer accessories, offices of trade and investment, shoe factory, soap factory, toothpaste factory, gems renovation factories, electrical accessories, sports industries and knitting factories.

Recently Thailand introduced job recruiting department in several townships and urge its jobless citizens to register in these offices.

According to Thai’s Labor Ministry, foreign workers would be allowed only in agricultural sectors, fisheries, rice mill, minerals explorations and household jobs and their work permit will be extended only for next one year.

The non-governmental organizations and respective departments estimated that there are over one million migrant workers in Thailand and over 80 per cent of these are Burmese.

Officer of district job recruitment department, Phisit Ninthoungkham signed the warning letters to foreign workers in Mae Hong Son district.

The employers would be faced punishment according to the immigrant workers act (1978) if foreign workers were still in working at their jobs after September 25, mentioned in the letter.

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