Skilled Lao labourers return to jobs in Thailand

Lao workers on their way to Thailand. - VT

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/Asia News Network): Some 150,000 skilled workers are on their way back to Thailand, while the government is setting up job centres in every province of Laos to assist returning migrant workers by providing them with information about new jobs.

Statistics from the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare indicate that more than 246,000 workers have returned to Laos from Thailand since the start of the pandemic when large numbers of people were laid off, with about 150,000 people having returned to Thailand last year.