Thailand recruits Vietnamese workers for fishing and construction jobs

According to the instructions of the Department of Overseas Labor Management, all businesses with a license to operate services sending workers to work abroad can send workers to work in Thailand and register contracts with the Department of Overseas Labor Management according to regulations.

Specifically, the two sides will pilot sending Vietnamese workers to work in Thailand in construction and fishing.

Accordingly, enterprises sending workers to work abroad in Vietnam can sign contracts to send workers to work in Thailand directly with Thai employers or through Thai labor brokerage companies. Thai labor brokerage companies and Thai employers must both be granted licenses to recruit foreign workers.

In which, Thai employers select workers from the list, sign labor contracts for each worker in advance and notify the Thai Employment Department and the Vietnamese dispatching agency.

In addition to the Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese markets, Thai businesses are currently recruiting Vietnamese workers for fishing and construction. In the photo, Vietnamese trainees are completing procedures to go to Japan to work. Photo: P.DIEN

Thai employers are responsible for picking up workers at the airport, conducting health checks on workers, obtaining work permits, and sending workers to a one-day orientation program organized by the Thai Employment Department.

A representative of the Overseas Labor Management Department said that before leaving the country, workers must pay for passport fees, health check-ups, visa fees, necessary training, and contributions to the Overseas Employment Support Fund according to regulations. Service fees for businesses providing services to send Vietnamese workers to work abroad under contracts must not exceed 1 month's basic salary for 1 year of contract.

After entering Thailand, workers are responsible for health care costs, health insurance, work permits, work permit application fees and social insurance contributions equal to 5% of monthly salary (only applicable to workers in the construction industry).

Two-way fare for workers from Vietnam to Thailand at the beginning of the contract and from Thailand to Vietnam at the end of the contract will be borne by the employer.