Crowds of migrant workers in Thailand seek legal registrations

BANGKOK, June 30 (TNA) - A one-stop service center for migrant workers has been opened in Bangkok's neighboring Samut Sakhon Province, where a large number of migrant workers are seeking their legal registrations. The center, the first of its kind, was opened at the Social Security Office (SSC) in seaside Samut Sakhon on Monday morning, functioning to serve migrant workers from neighboring Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. Services at the one-stop facility reportedly had some problems due to the overwhelming number of migrant workers seeking their legal registrations, including computer glitches and insufficient information in registration forms. At the first one-stop service center for migrant workers,local employers have brought crowds of their workers for the legal registrations. Many officials have been deployed to facilitate the process, including those from the Ministries of Labor and Public Health, as well as the Ministry's of Interior's Department of Provincial Administration, the Signal Department of the Royal Thai Army and the immigration police. Interpreters have also been there to support communications with migrant workers. The one-stop service center opens from 8:30am to 4:30pm every day until July 30, 2014, expected to serve 2,000-3,000 migrant workers a day and the registration of each of them to take about 30 minutes The Ministry of Labor will later open such service centers in four other provinces bordering neighboring countries, including northeastern and eastern Thai provinces. The registrations of migrant workers have results from the Thai army-led National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)'s policy on regulating migrant workers. Meanwhile, the NCPO plans to send its teams of commerce, foreign affairs and labor officials to inform importing markets of Thai products overseas that Thailand is seriously solving labor problems, with the teams set to first visit the United States and Europe. Besides, foreign business operators will be invited to inspect production lines in Thailand to prove the Kingdom's serious solution efforts. (TNA)