Thailand still needs blue-collar workers despite Covid fallout


BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): Thailand’s Outsourcing Employment Association revealed that even though the country has been hit by a Covid-19 outbreak twice, the demand for blue-collar workers has not fallen.

Visuth Panthavuthiyanont, the association’s chairman, said on Tuesday that Thailand’s labour market was badly affected by the nationwide lockdown between March and July 2020. However, demand for labour in some industries, especially automobile and electronics, gradually returned to normal from late October.

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