Revealing 5 urgent policies of "Pongkawin", the new Minister of Labor, to create AI workers, increase wages, and control foreigners.

“Pongkawin” plants the flag, molds Thai workers into the AI ​​era, pushes up wages, organizes foreign workers, hopes to solve problems and improve the quality of life of Thai workers after taking office as the new Minister of Labor.

On July 4, 68 Mr. Pongkawin Juangroongruangkit, Minister of Labor After officially taking office on his first day, he said that he would accelerate the implementation of 5 policies to improve the quality of life of Thai workers and increase their incomes. The 5 policies include:

5 important strategies for the future of Thai labor:

• “AI to improve the Thai workforce” : The Minister of Labor emphasized the need to urgently develop AI curricula that are in line with the manufacturing and service sectors. He will draw all groups of workers into the skills training process, integrate cooperation with all sectors, and use the mechanism of the Labor Skill Development Promotion Act to stimulate the private sector to jointly develop AI labor skills to keep up with the rapidly changing job market demands.
• “Equal labor protection” : This policy aims to push for a new labor law to cover more than 21 million informal workers so that it can enter the legislative and enforcement process as soon as possible. Because there are currently many new forms of work, the Ministry of Labor must take care of all groups of workers equally, and study and develop laws and social security systems to be up-to-date to support the current variety of work.
• “Learn to Earn” : To promote the potential of Thai youth who are capable in all aspects, the Minister of Labor will support earning extra income while studying for youth aged 15-18 years. In addition to enhancing experience and building skills, it also helps to use free time beneficially. It adheres to the law protecting youth labor that allows them to work but must not affect their physical and mental health and must not be at risk of causing harm. He has assigned relevant agencies to integrate cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Higher Education, etc. and entrepreneurs to drive this policy to achieve maximum efficiency.
• “Creating economic opportunities by raising the income of Thai workers” : Although this year the minimum wage has been increased twice, resulting in workers in some areas and occupations receiving a daily wage of 2 baht, data from the Social Security Office indicates that there are still 400 million insured persons, 2.3 million of whom are Thai workers, who still receive a daily wage of less than 1.8 baht, reflecting that more than 400% of workers already earn more than 90 baht per day. For the remaining groups, the Minister of Labor has assigned all agencies to urgently raise their incomes. In the first phase, the focus will be on training and developing skills, both up-skilling and re-skilling, so that this group of workers has the skills and standards that will enter the wage system according to labor skill standards, resulting in a higher wage of more than 400 baht per day. The Ministry is also ready to develop a minimum wage mechanism and wage structure for long-term efficiency.
• “Urgently organizing foreign workers working in Thailand” : Since foreign workers play an important role in driving the manufacturing and service sectors, but the lack of control leads to subsequent problems, the Minister of Labor is accelerating the organization by publicizing to foreign workers currently working in Thailand to enter the process of requesting permission or permission to work in Thailand as required by law in full, along with strictly enforcing related laws to solve the problem of illegal work and work that takes away jobs from Thais.

In addition, Mr. Pongkawin also mentioned The case of Cambodian workers gradually returning to their country, which may result in labor shortages in some sectors All agencies have been assigned to consider ways to balance the proportion of workers of each nationality and will begin studying the feasibility of bringing in workers from outside the CLMV group. Especially in the industrial sector that requires specific skills to strengthen Thailand's economic growth to be more stable.

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