Workers at a fish market in Samut Sakhon province, west of Bangkok (SOurce: AP)
Bangkok(VNA) –Thailand’s fisheries association plans to pay its employees through bankaccounts from April or May 2018 in an effort to prevent forced labour.
It is according to a report of the International Labour Organization (ILO) onconditions for fishermen and seafood processing workers in Thailand.
Before it begins enforcing the order, the association will need to issue newemployment contracts to migrant workers in the seafood and fishing industries.
Jarin Jakkaphak,Permanent Secretary of the Labour Ministry said that the policy to pay throughbank accounts will ensure greater transparency and fairness to workers in theseafood and fishing industry.
Thailand's seafoodindustry has come under scrutiny in recent years after investigations showedslavery, trafficking and violence on fishing boats and at onshore processing facilities.
According to an ILOofficial in Bangkok, deductions and delays in payments are hard to track when workersare paid in cash. The workers did not get pay slips, so they didn't know how muchthey were paid, how much was held back and how much they were still owed, saidthe official.
More than half theestimated 600,000 workers in the industries are registered migrant workers. Nearlya fourth of the workers ILO surveyed said they had experienced delayed andpartial payments.-VNA
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Workers at a fish market in Samut Sakhon province, west of Bangkok (SOurce: AP) 
