{"id":6241,"date":"2011-11-28T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2011-11-29T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:11:33","slug":"forced-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/11\/28\/forced-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Labour, Child Labour, Discrimination and Violations of Trade Union Rights All Common in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/forced-labour-child-labour.html?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6242\" title=\"Forced Labour, Child Labour, Discrimination and Violations of Trade Union Rights All Common in Thailand \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/111129_thai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Thailand, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation\u2019s (WTO) review of its trade policies, reveals serious violations of fundamental workers\u2019 rights including a high degree of prevalence of forced labour. Both local suppliers and multinational enterprises such as Ford,  Mazda, Michelin and Goodyear make extensive use of anti-union practices  including lockouts, dismissals, unfavourable work assignments and  eviction of union members in order to limit union membership and  activities. Employers often use contract labour to weaken bargaining  power in Thailand. Moreover, the laws discriminate against migrant  workers allowing them only limited rights to organise. Many children are victims of the worst forms of child labour, mainly  in agriculture, shrimp farms, fisheries, prostitution and domestic  servitude. They often have to carry heavy loads, work long hours and  deal with pesticides and other dangerous substances. A 2006 survey found  that 12.3 per cent of working children between the ages of 5 and 14 in  agriculture performed unpaid work. Girls are often employed as domestic  servants where they work long hours and are vulnerable to sexual and  physical abuse. The report also reveals that women, disabled persons and other groups  face discrimination in various aspects of employment, including in  hiring and remuneration. The laws do not effectively protect migrant  workers, ethnic groups, indigenous and stateless people from forced  labour and human trafficking. In practice, forced labour and human  trafficking are rife.  One study found that 57 per cent of the Burmese  migrant workers in the seafood industry in the province of Samut Sakhon  were working in conditions of forced labour. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/forced-labour-child-labour.html?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Thailand | Company: Ford,  Mazda, Michelin, Goodyear |  Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/forced-labour-child-labour.html?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">International Trade Union Confederation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Thailand, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation\u2019s (WTO) review of its trade policies, reveals serious violations of fundamental workers\u2019 rights including a high degree of prevalence of forced labour. Both local suppliers and multinational enterprises such as Ford, Mazda, Michelin and Goodyear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,692,161,331],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ford","tag-goodyear","tag-mazda","tag-michelin","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}