The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) is demanding a greater effort to deal with the severe shortage of 700,000 workers, even as the government is working to bring in migrant workers from neighbouring countries.
Last month the federation called on authorities to speed up the signing of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with officials in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar to import labour, said Suchart Chantaranakaracha, the FTI's vice-chairman for labour affairs.
"We want the government to urgently solve the labour shortage because the problem is threatening to affect the Thai economic recovery," he said.
