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Thu, 05/26/2011 - 15:07
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Thailand prepared for labour shortages in ageing period
BANGKOK, May 26 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Labour is implementing measures to address the problem of labour shortages over the next 20 years--when Thailand will have become a world ageing society.
Permanent Secretary for Labour Somkiart Chayasriwong said that the problem was discussed at the first meeting of a government committee in charge of addressing the foreseen shortages of labour in the country, held in Bangkok on Thursday, during which a tentative assessment was concluded that the shortages of labour supply in the Thai economy should reached about 300,000 by then.
According to the senior official, the meeting also estimated that the number of the elderly in the Thai society should account for some 25 per cent of the total Thai population by 2030.
The top Thai Labour Ministry official acknowledged that three initial measures to address the labour shortages in Thailand were also raised at the meeting. They include recruiting more new graduates, migrant workers, retired personnel and even persons with partial disabilities into the country's workforces, improving the existing workforces in the Thai economy through enhancing their skills, productivity and morale and widely promoting the utilization of modern technologies and advance transport, logistics and internal business management systems.
The Thai permanent secretary for labour said that the meeting then resolved to set up seven sub-committees to outline strategies and operational plans to prevent and cope with the anticipated labour shortages in the country based on the division of work concept, with four of them to take care of recruiting more workforces from separate groups of people and the remaining three to be in charge of developing the existing workforces in the country.
The official noted that all the proposed strategies and operational plans will then be handed to the newly-elected Thai government after the upcoming July 3 general election. (TNA)
Permanent Secretary for Labour Somkiart Chayasriwong said that the problem was discussed at the first meeting of a government committee in charge of addressing the foreseen shortages of labour in the country, held in Bangkok on Thursday, during which a tentative assessment was concluded that the shortages of labour supply in the Thai economy should reached about 300,000 by then.
According to the senior official, the meeting also estimated that the number of the elderly in the Thai society should account for some 25 per cent of the total Thai population by 2030.
The top Thai Labour Ministry official acknowledged that three initial measures to address the labour shortages in Thailand were also raised at the meeting. They include recruiting more new graduates, migrant workers, retired personnel and even persons with partial disabilities into the country's workforces, improving the existing workforces in the Thai economy through enhancing their skills, productivity and morale and widely promoting the utilization of modern technologies and advance transport, logistics and internal business management systems.
The Thai permanent secretary for labour said that the meeting then resolved to set up seven sub-committees to outline strategies and operational plans to prevent and cope with the anticipated labour shortages in the country based on the division of work concept, with four of them to take care of recruiting more workforces from separate groups of people and the remaining three to be in charge of developing the existing workforces in the country.
The official noted that all the proposed strategies and operational plans will then be handed to the newly-elected Thai government after the upcoming July 3 general election. (TNA)
