Members of the House of Representatives' Roles and Duties related labour issues under National Strategy

Other Title
รายงานวิจัยฉบับสมบูรณ์ เรื่อง บทบาทและหน้าที่ของสมาชิกสภาผู้แทนราษฎรด้านการแรงงานภายใต้ยุทธศาสตร์ชาติ
Author
Suphasit Taweejamsup
Wimpat Rajpradit
Chattames Pirompanich
No. of Pages
398
Year
2021
Research Types
Research by Institutes & Independent scholars
Sponsorship:
ได้รับทุนในการวิจัยจากสำนักงานเลขาธิการสภาผู้แทนราษฎร ประจำปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2562
Abstract

Under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560, members of the House of Representative must perform their duties by following the National Strategy Master Plan and Country Reform Plan as a framework which involve in the development of labour. After considering all of powers and duties of the members of the House of Representatives, the most important one is the enactment of the law which will play an essential role in the development of labour law, therefore, it is necessary to collect and analyze goals, action plans, indicators throughout as well as the various tools and mechanisms in the National Strategic Plan, Master Plan and National Reform Plan for clarity in the guidelines in the country under the current constitution which aims to develop labour system and inform the duties of members of the House of Representatives in relation to labour system. From the research, it is found that labour laws are still inconsistent with the National Strategy, framework, and the country's reform plan in three important parts: 1) Security; Thai labour law still has problems with violations of the rights of foreign labour in the form of forced labour and human trafficking problems with the integration of foreign workers quality of life of the population. 2) Development and Empowerment of human resources; Thai labour law of still lack compulsory measures, benefits to promote the development of labour skills, grouping to support the development of labour potential as well as the skill development of homeworkers and marine workers. 3) Opportunity Creation and Social Equality; Thail labour law continues to address issues of inconsistencies with non-discrimination conventions, qualifications of persons entitled to benefit from the skills development promotion act and the dilemma between social security law and compensation law. For solving the above problems, the organization and agencies relating labour must initially consider an overview of labour laws by the assessments of the efficiency and effectiveness assessments of the laws under the article 77 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560, besides, working in an integrated way and implement the following recommendations.

  • 1) In terms of labour protection, they should provide the protection of job seekers, increase development measures labour potential, expand the principle of nondiscrimination in labour protection laws to be more comprehensive and increase inspection measures for marine workers and homeworkers.
  • 2) In terms of labour relations, the freedom of association for migrant workers should be guaranteed. The labour relation laws should be develop in accordance with the characteristics of each occupation, Increase the system relating to the freedom of association for state enterprise personnel and abolish the right to stop work of state enterprise personnel.
  • 3) As for the development of labour potential, the concept of employment in the 21st century should be applied concretely. 
  • 4) In terms of safety at work, they should enact more rules about safety to be more comprehensive and consistent with multiple intelligences
  • 5) As for the benefits and welfare of workers, Inconsistencies between rights should be eliminated. according to social security law and compensation law and
  • 6) For other respects related to labour, they should compile a category of labour laws for easy access. All relevant laws should be integrated for solving the problem of migrant workers. Besides, the fishing labour law should be amended under the way of life of fishermen