Firms urged to prevent brain drain after 2015
The Nation 2011-05-31
Employees should be offered better welfare and more incentives to prevent a possible brain drain when the Asean grouping of countries gets integrated in 2015, the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare warned yesterday.
Better migration and employment conditions offered under the 2015 Asean Community will encourage citizens to seek jobs that pay higher salaries and offer better welfare in the region, DLPW director-general Amphorn Nitisiri told a four-day Bangkok seminar, which wrapped up yesterday.
The immediate measure could be decreasing working hours and employing inexpensive incentives, such as training that could boost the potential of their workers. Senior citizens or retirees in certain professions could be re-employed, along with disabled people with exceptional skills, in order to solve the shortage of labour, she added.
According to a national-standard analysis, Thailand will face drastic changes such as state authorities becoming weak and the public's actions becoming stronger and the current economic structure not being able to accommodate long-term growth because labour getting expensive due to wage policies employed by political parties to win votes. The other scenarios are a lower growth rate; a larger elderly population; a decrease in social courtesy and helpfulness; a drop in natural resources; a higher rate of crime; and the migration of workforce.
The seminar was aimed at encouraging businesses to take part in a scheme to end child labour, cut down overtime hours and fully comply with the minimum wage policy. So far, 108 companies have joined this scheme.
The department has also granted certificates to 1,565 large businesses taking part in corporate social responsibility schemes.
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