The report further notes discrimination in employment and wages in Thailand. In the private sector, women generally receive equal wages in low wage jobs, but not in higher wage jobs. In the civil service women are also underrepresented in high wage jobs.
There is also a large number of homeworkers in Thailand, mainly women (78.1%) with a large part of their production in textiles and clothing. Earnings for this group are particularly low.
Discrimination also takes place among the hundreds of thousands of Burmese migrant workers who are employed in fisheries, manufacturing, domestic work, construction work, hotels and restaurants and agriculture.
Migrant workers in garment factories are forced to work extremely long working hours without overtime payment, and earn less than the already low minimum wage. They work in poor conditions with a lack of ventilation and water in the factories and have to live in poor and crowded accommodation.
Finally the report notes that child labour remains a serious problem in Thailand, including its worst forms such as prostitution, drug trafficking, domestic work, agricultural work and hazardous work.
Trafficking of women and children, especially for forced prostitution, continues to be a serious problem and has increased. The report notes that there is concern about the small number of prosecutions and a lack of information on any convictions.
International Trade Union Confederation
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