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Businesses warn of worker shortage

Cambodian workers complete procedures to leave Thailand and head home at a border checkpoint in Chanthaburi. (Photo: Thai-Cambodian Border Trade and Tourism Association of Chanthaburi)

Thai businesses are pressing the government to renew work permits for 190,000 Cambodian migrant workers, warning of a looming labour shortage if their licences are allowed to expire.

Tanit Sorat, chairman of the National Labour Development Advisory Council, said the panel has urged the authorities to ease strict rules and streamline the extension process for Cambodian workers who are legally employed in Thailand.

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