BANGKOK: May Oo Sen is among millions of people in Thailand who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2009, she moved from Myanmar’s ...
BANGKOK: May Oo Sen is among millions of people in Thailand who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are concerned that in a situation where many thousands of migrants have lost their livelihoods, migrants are not included in the stimulus and compensation packages that have been announced by the government, which could lead many into situations of extreme precarity,” said Pia Oberoi, senior advisor on migration and human rights at the UN Human Rights Office for Southeast Asia.
There is no official record of how many migrants in Thailand have lost their jobs to the health crisis. However, migrants’ rights groups believe a significant number of them have suffered the blow of the government’s order to temporarily close several businesses in order to minimise the transmission.
Instead, he added, migrants are likely to move around Thailand in search for jobs in order to maintain their legal status and those who cannot may end up trying to cross the border illegally in order to go home. “The government didn’t look at the problem from every perspective. People who have been hardest hit are day labourers – both Thais and migrants. However, Thai people get support, for example, the monthly 5,000-Baht compensation scheme,” Adisorn said, calling the order"a serious misstep".
In March, the Cabinet passed a decision to enable migrant workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos who could not renew their work permit in time to continue working legally in Thailand until Jun 30 without being fined for overstaying their visa.
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