Thais mandate migrant worker health checks
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Thais mandate migrant worker health checks
seems like a infringement of human rights BUT as we all know that the THai's have always looked down on the Khmer's.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/t ... lth-checksOn the road to legal employment in Thailand, Cambodian migrant workers are being made to undergo check-ups that have them cough, strip and give blood and urine samples to prove they are physically and mentally sound enough to work in the country.
Obtaining a workers’ permit, Thailand’s junta has announced, is contingent upon passing compulsory, 500-baht ($15) health screenings and buying 1,600-baht insurance.
“It’s not voluntary, but the workers aren’t told what will happen once they cross the border or what the doctors will do,†Plaii said. “It’s a violation of the workers’ rights to bypass properly informed consent.â€
But no one seems to know what all the workers could be consenting to. Upon crossing the border, a labourer’s trek back to Thailand begins with an 80-baht temporary identification card doled out at newly created coordinating centres. Employers then retrieve the freshly arrived workers from the checkpoint, and within 60 days must take them to a one-stop centre to request a longer-term permit, where the requisite tests are undertaken and fees levied.
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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