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Social security

Capacity of Thailand Social Security Office staff strengthened

New skills will help Social Security Office staff deliver better services and increase social security coverage in Thailand.

TRIANGLE in ASEAN Migrant Worker Resource Centre (MRC) Map

TRIANGLE in ASEAN delivers assistance directly to migrant workers and their communities through a network of Migrant Worker Resource Centres (MRCs) across the ASEAN region. These MRCs are managed in partnership with government institutions, trade...

Domestic workers

Policy review on social security for domestic workers in Thailand

This policy review focuses on the legal framework around domestic work and barriers, profile of domestic work in Thailand, challenges for domestic workers to access social protection and possible means to address them, and the ILO’s recommendations...

Migrant workers

Australian Minister visits ILO Migrant Worker Resource Center

Australian Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, the Hon. Andrew Giles MP, met with migrant workers and support providers in the Mae Sot District, Tak Province.

Domestic Workers

Protection in Practice: Challenges and perceptions of domestic workers accessing social protection in Thailand

Migrant workers

Australian Ambassador to ASEAN meets migrant workers and support providers in Thailand

A visit to the Migrant Resource Centre, supported by the TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, provided an opportunity to speak with migrant workers and the organizations providing support.

Safety + Health for All

Highlights from projects funded by Japan (2021-2022)

This fact sheet highlights key results achieved in the field of safety and health at work through seven projects funded by the Government of Japan in 2021-2022.

ILO in action

Supporting green economic development in Thailand

Wasana Sittirin, ILO consultant for the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) in Thailand, explains how the project is providing support to the country in their shift towards a greener economy.

Skills development

Signing ceremony on technical assessment report for skills certification in skills bricklaying and plastering between Thailand and Cambodia

Through the support from ILO/Korea Partnership programme, the signing ceremony marked a significant step for the free flow of migrant workers from Cambodia to Thailand within the construction sector.

Gender-based collective bargaining agreements better protect rights of woman workers

The ILO’s Ship to Shore Rights South-East Asia Programme promotes a gender-based collective bargaining negotiation and agreement to better protect the rights of woman workers in the seafood processing industry.

Policy Brief

Green jobs and just transition policy readiness assessment in Thailand

Under PAGE (Green Recovery) Thailand, ILO’s support focused on policy readiness assessment at national level on Green Jobs creation for a green recovery (in particular in the energy and agriculture sectors), while evaluating one of the six in-depth...

ILO organizes orientation session to strengthen the understanding around the social and solidarity economy in Thailand and Vietnam

The ILO organized an orientation session to guide the national researchers in Thailand and Vietnam in undertaking mapping studies for the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Asia project.

Fair and ethical recruitment

Regional operational guidelines on fair and ethical recruitment in ASEAN. Improving regulation and enforcement: A resource for regulators

The regional operational guidelines provide guidance to government regulators on fair recruitment practices, licensing private recruitment agencies, monitoring recruitment processes, and acting on complaints related to the recruitment process....

Skills

Mutual Recognition of Skills (MRS): A pilot initiative on bricklaying and plastering

The free flow of skilled migrant workers within ASEAN continues to be acknowledged as one of the key regional initiatives in promoting skills recognition in the region.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Interview with Akkanut Wantanasombut – founder of community-based social and solidarity economy platform

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths in the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On...

Skills

Thailand’s national skills standard testing and assessment on bricklaying and plastering (Level 1)

This instructional and/or demonstration video for Thailand’s National Skills Standard Testing and Assessment on Bricklaying and Plastering (Level 1) has been produced to capture the assessment process and scoring.

Young Futuremakers Thailand - Phase II: Project factsheet

The Young Futuremakers Thailand-Phase II project is a part of the Futuremakers by Standard Chartered initiative and provides systemic and integrated support for disadvantaged young women and men, through the provision of demand-led technical skills...

Press release

How service delivery for women migrant workers and their families in construction sector are strengthened in Thailand

The ILO, through the Safe and Fair programme under the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, reaches out to women migrant workers and their families in construction camps in Thailand, ensuring their rights and entitlements are protected and respected.

ILO holds second regional advisory committee to share updates on strengthening the social and solidarity economy in Asia project

The project’s national researchers and regional advisory committee members exchanged around the progress of the research on the social and solidarity economy in Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Vietnam on 6 February 2023.

Our impact, their voices

Small but fierce

A Thai woman entrepreneur tells the story of how she resisted the temptation to give up on her business and instead committed to improving her skills and adapting her business strategy during COVID-19.