Prognosis
Thailand Opening Doors to More Foreign Workers to Revive Economy
- Government to register illegal laborers to assess future needs
- Construction, Food sectors facing deepest worker shortages
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Thailand plans to allow more foreign workers into the country starting next month to fill a labor shortage that has hurt manufacturers and poses a risk to an economy that’s just starting to recover from the Covid-19 outbreak.
The government is allowing illegal workers now in Thailand to register by the end of the month to assess how many more people to allow in from neighboring countries, such as Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. Labor Minister Suchart Chomklin said he expects about 100,000 will be counted, with the overall shortage estimated at about 300,000.