Over 4,000 migrant workers register at one-stop-service center near Bangkok

BANGKOK, July 3 (TNA) - A total of 4,070 migrant workers have registered at a one-stop-service center in Bangkok's neighboring Samut Sakhon Province over the past three days. Sumet Mahosot, Director-General of the Department of Employment, under the Ministry of Labor, told journalists of the figure on Thursday, saying that he was reported by Samut Sakhon's provincial employment office that on July 2 alone, 152 local employers brought 1,048 migrant workers, including 591 Myanmar, 176 Lao and 281 Cambodian nationals, to legally register under the Thai army-led National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)'s policy on regulating migrant workers in the Thai Kingdom. According to the senior official, at least 2,966 local employers have registered their migrant workers since Samut Sakhon's one-stop-service center was opened on June 30, 2014. Samut Sakhon relies on migrant workers in the local seafood industry and its regulation of migrant workers has become a pilot project to be followed by other Thai provinces where one-stop service centers for migrant workers' legal registrations will then be opened by July 15, 2014.(TNA)