BANGKOK, 30 October 2014 – The Department of Labor Protection and Welfare (DLPW) is to extend the Child Labor Monitoring (CLM) system to cover additional seaside provinces, reports an official.
The DLPW Director General Peerapat Pornsirilertkit today gave a speech at the opening ceremony of the ‘CLM: The mechanism to prevent Child Labor’, from lessons learnt, to an extension seminar at the TK Palace hotel, Laksi, Bangkok.
The DLPW Director General said that the Thai export of shrimps, fish, clothing, and sugar had been affected by the earlier downgrade of Thailand to the Tier 3 Trafficking in Persons watch list, by the United States.
Part of this was due to child labor allegations. Therefore, the DLPW has implemented the Child Labor Monitoring (CLM) system to actively deal with the issue.
The CLM is currently being piloted in Samut Sakhon and Songkhla provinces with positive results. The DLPW will study the outcome of this project in order to further implement the system in another 22 seaside provinces where the fisheries industry is the main occupation, as well as in the garment industry and sugar cane plantations, said the DLPW Director General.
The CLM was developed by the DLPW in cooperation with the Research and Development Institute, Khon Kaen University. The project was sponsored by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
This system tackles the child labor issue by creating an integration mechanism between subdistrict administrative organizations and the government and business organizations, to help monitor any child labor violations in the area and help rescue the child.
