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20K jobs await returning migrants
Sun, 10 January 2021
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has announced that it will provide 20,000 jobs in the domestic market to migrant workers who have returned from Thailand.
The ministry’s National Employment Agency (NEA) will facilitate job placement in various industrial sectors including manufacturing, service, construction and agriculture.
The NEA will seek to implement measures introduced by Prime Minister Hun Sen to create local employment opportunities for
returning workers to ease their transitions in coming home, allowing them to reunite with their families and avoiding a need to migrate again for work.
The agency has formed a working group across the capital and provinces tasked with registering and regularly monitoring the living situations of migrants who have returned from Thailand through border checkpoints.
Returning migrant workers on the border in Banteay Meanchey province. - The Phnom Penh Post/Asian News Network PHNOM PENH, Jan 9 (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Since the outbreak of Covid-19 early last year, more than 120,000 out of 1.2 million Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand have returned home, with many facing difficulties to sustain themselves and their families.
To ease the burden, the Ministry of Planning has encouraged returning migrants to apply for IDPoor cards with their local authorities. So far, however, only a small portion have applied to join the programme despite widespread hardships.
Phorn Chantha is a 51-year-old farmer from Kors Kralor district’s Chhnal Mann commune in Battambang province. Before the outbreak, he had worked with family members as gardeners for a real estate company in Thailand’s Pathum Thani province for four years.
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Migrant workers returning from Thailand at the O’Smach border crossing in Oddar Meanchey province on Monday. Oddar Meanchey Provincial Hall
Hun Sen lauds Thai gov’t and border officials after outbreak
Tue, 29 December 2020
Following the Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province on December 20, more than 2,000 migrants have returned to Cambodia and are currently undergoing quarantine at facilities near the border. None of them had tested positive for Covid-19.
During his national address on December 29, Prime Minister Hun Sen thanked all relevant authorities for their cooperative efforts to successfully prevent the importation of Covid-19 from Thailand through returning migrant workers.