The Ministry of Labour Protection and Welfare has announced the project to help prevent and alleviate the problem of termination of employment of the flood hit companies.

Project guidelines

1. The project will be made public to employers.

2. An employer or an establishment hit by the floods submits documents concerned to the Provincial Office of Labour Protection and Welfare/ the Bangkok Metropolitan Office of Labour Protection and Welfare where the establishment located for joining in the project.

3. An officer of the Provincial Office of Labour Protection and Welfare/ the
Bangkok Metropolitan Office of Labour Protection and Welfare verifies the
documents and qualification of the employer hit by the floods according
to the required criteria.

4. The committee will be set up at the Provincial Office/ the Bangkok Metropolitan Office composing of the representatives from the agencies under the Ministry of Labour to consider and approve the establishment joining in the project.

5. An employer or a person authorized to act on behalf of the employer signs the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Director-General of the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare or the assigned person from the Director-General.

6. Whereas an establishment complies with the MOU without a case of termination of employment due to the floods situation and pay employees not less than seventy-five percent of their wages, the Provincial Office of Labour Protection and Welfare/ the Bangkok Metropolitan Office of Labour Protection and Welfare shall contribute additional payment to the establishment.

Criteria for acceptance of an employer hit by the floods to join
in the project

1. Qualification of an employer

1.1 An employer or an establishment hit by the floods for 7 days consecutive or more and temporarily suspend business for a month or more has to provide evidence for consideration.

1.2 An employer has to notify a record of employees who are insured person at the Office of Social Security when joining in the project at the registration date.

1.3 A contract employer employs workers working in an establishment hit by the floods has to be affirmed by an entrepreneur before providing a record of insured employees to join in the project.

2. An employer has to agree and accept the following conditions;

2.1 While joining in the project, an employer must not terminate a contract to an employee hit by the floods.

2.2 The Government would pay an employee for 2,000 baht a month and an employer would contribute payment to an employee. The total payment received by an employee would not less than seventy-five percent
of his/her wage for a working day received before hitting by the floods.

2.3 An employer has to notify an employee and post a notice for the project’s participation.

2.4 Whereas an employer fails to comply with these criteria, he/she would disqualify to participate in this project. If the officer later found that the employer fails to comply with the terms of the MOU, or submitted information, or the evidence does not match reality, the employer has to return money and be prosecuted.

Criteria of Payment

1. The Provincial Office of Labour Protection and Welfare/ the Bangkok
Metropolitan Office of Labour Protection and Welfare would verify a status of insured person in a record of employees received from an establishment. The Officer has to verify payroll evidence that the employer paid to employees not less than seventy-five percent of his/her wages for November 2011 payment.

2. The Provincial Office of Labour Protection and Welfare/ the Bangkok
Metropolitan Office of Labour Protection and Welfare would pay a cheque to the employer entitled in the project commencing on November 2011 onwards for 2,000 baht per an employee.

3. The payment would be ceased when an establishment can run his/her business as usual, but it would not exceed a three-month consecutive.

4. The Provincial Office of Labour Protection and Welfare/ the Bangkok
Metropolitan Office of Labour Protection and Welfare would submit a record of employees received from an employer to Social Security Office for verification.

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