Thread: Thailand: Over 10 million children in nation’s workforce, 85,000 in high-risk jobs

A SURVEY carried out by Thailand’s National Statistics Office shows there were more than 10 million children in the Southeast Asian nation’s workforce last year, with more than 85,000 working in hazardous conditions.

Many of the children in the workforce were asked to leave school to help support their families, according to the Bangkok Post,

Pannee Sriyudhsak, who heads the Ministry’s Labor Protection and Welfare department, said 10,876,275 children aged between 5 and 17 were in employment.

The survey found that 65,601 children aged 15 to 17 were working in dangerous conditions. A further 14,093 aged between 13 and 14, and 6,112 between 5 and 12 were also found to be working in high-risk jobs.

Pannee said 692,819 children between the ages of 15 and 17 were employed in safe environments, but worked more than 48 hours.....

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/...ons-workforce/

Sad juxtaposition of this headline with Forbes 50 Richest Thais.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Sad juxtaposition of this headline with Forbes 50 Richest Thais.

Nothing short of comparative sensationalism.
Stories/articles as this one above might be reserved for tabloid type of journalism/information.

Factual evidence and faery tales are not one and the same.
Yet, most are easily lulled [this being one example].

10,876,275 children aged between 5 and 17 were in employment.

Only 9 years of schooling is compulsory in Thailand. After that, they are free to work.

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

Pannee Sriyudhsak, who heads the Ministry’s Labor Protection and Welfare department, said 10,876,275 children aged between 5 and 17 were in employment.

Really?

Population 66 million ish. Even if the age group 5 to 17 made up one third of the thai population, that would mean 1 out of every 2 thai kids was working?

Find that kind of hard to believe.

^^
100 out of 20 Thai stats are pure bs.