MIGRANT LABOUR
Pregnancy send-home plan upsets
- Published: 27 Jun 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
Activists have called the Labour Ministry's proposal to send pregnant migrant workers back to their home countries a basic violation of human rights.
Labour Minister Padermchai Sasomsap has proposed that migrant workers who are in an early stage of pregnancy should be sent back to their home countries to deliver their babies, returning to Thailand to resume their work after giving birth.
The minister said this would prevent human trafficking and child labour.
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