Labour: The Labour Ministry has stepped in to help Thai workers forced to return home prematurely from Libya by offering them compensation.
Anurak Tossarat, director-general of the Department of Employment, said provincial employment offices will track down the workers who came home due to the civil war in Libya.
The workers are entitled to state compensation and job placement agencies will also have to pay the workers part of the fee for the abrupt termination of their contracts.
When the situation in Libya improves, the ministry will ask the employers there to provide the workers with compensation as well.
Mass exodus home
SOUTH: Thai Muslim workers in Malaysia are returning home in droves to the far South to celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Immigration police were kept busy yesterday checking people, mostly Thai Muslims, at border checkpoints in Sungai Kolok, Tak Bai and Buketa in Narathiwat. Long tailbacks were spotted at the checkpoint near the Thai-Malaysia bridge in Sungai Kolok district. In Tak Bai, ferries were also packed with people coming back from Malaysia.
Kamnan job fears
Administration: Representatives of kamnan and village headmen yesterday petitioned the National Legislative Assembly to revoke three sections of the Municipal Act, which they fear could cost them their jobs. Under attack are Sections 4, 12 and 48.
Yongyot Kaewkhiao, the village headmen association chief, said if the Interior Ministry designated local areas as town or city municipalities under the Municipal Act, it would override the Local Government Act, under which kamnans and village headmen work. This would result in no kamnan or village headmen elections as has already happened in Trang, Nonthaburi and Lampang, he said. "These sections would weed them all out," Mr Yongyot said.
