The Labour Ministry is negotiating with recruitment agencies to help Thai berry-pickers who worked in Northern Europe and who filed complaints that they had not received the minimum wages they were promised, Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin said on Monday.
Mr Chomklin said he had assigned his assistant Surachai Chaitrakultong to talk to the representatives of Thai recruitment agencies with the Labour Ministry's permanent secretary Boonchob Suthamanaswong and the Department of Employment's director-general Pairoj Chotikasatien.
Mr Suchart said that almost 200 workers, or 1-2% of the Thai berry-pickers in Sweden and Finland, have claimed that their net income did not meet the agreed minimum wage. Most of them are newly recruited workers who were sent to berry farms for the first time.
