New work conditions for maids, trawler crews in Thailand
The Nation/Asia News Network
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Thai labourers wave national flags and hold
portraits of Thai King Bhumibol Adulayadej and Queen Sirikit as they
gather to mark international workers' day on May 1, 2012.
THAILAND - Housemaids and crew members of fishing trawlers
will have their working conditions improved if an amendment to a labour
regulation bill - approved in principle by the Cabinet yesterday - is
passed on.
According to many altered conditions in the bill, those working as
domestic maids are entitled to a weekly one day break, and have the
choice of enjoying all national holidays or being paid for them.
They will also be granted paid sick leave, and have paid vacations.
The bill stipulates no person under 15 can be hired as a domestic.
Strict working conditions enforced on Thai and immigrant crew members
working on fishing trawlers are also relaxed on trawlers with fewer
than 20 crew members or on trawlers which travel off Thai waters for
more than a year in each trip.
Full details of these conditions have yet to be released.
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