The Impact of Foreign Workers' Relocation on the Fish Processing Industry After the Opening of the ASEAN Economic Community
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The study finds that:
- The impact of entrepreneurship is in a form of hidden costs. Entrepreneurs,
whose employees are foreign workers, want the government to issue legislation
that can protect entrepreneurs' rights. These entrepreneurs should get involved
in establishing the proposed guidance or policies.
- Since hiring Thai workers has resulted in high employment costs, the
industries adopt machine systems. Due to this fact, the state must have a policy
to enable entrepreneurs to develop production systems with an emphasis on
mechanical adoption, automation machines, and even robots in manufacturing
instead of human labors. Apart from replacing human labour (low ability) with
automation (high), this emmense change will also reduce the dependency on
foreign workers.
- There should be a strict compliance to the labour rules and regulations,
especially when dealing with employment.
- The Department of Employment's policy of encouraging Thai workers
to work abroad should be abrogated and replaced with the policy which attracts
Thai citiznes to work within the state instead. The informants also reveal that if
more workers are moved out of the country, industrial businesses will progress
slower. It will affect the economy, politics, production costs, business policies,
and labor legalization.
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