Informal Workers in Thailand: Occupational Health and Social Security Disparities

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• Personal Author:
  Chaikittiporn C ; Kongtip P ; Laohaudomchok W ; Nankongnab N ; Slatin C ; Woskie S
• Description:
  Informal workers in Thailand lack employee status as defined under the Labor Protection Act (LPA). Typically, they do not work at an employer's premise; they work at home and may be self-employed or temporary workers. They account for 62.6 percent of the Thai workforce and have a workplace accident rate ten times higher than formal workers. Most Thai Labor laws apply only to formal workers, but some protect informal workers in the domestic, home work, and agricultural sectors. Laws that protect informal workers lack practical enforcement mechanisms and are generally ineffective because informal workers lack employment contracts and awareness of their legal rights. Thai social security laws fail to provide informal workers with treatment of work-related accidents, diseases, and injuries; unemployment and retirement insurance; and workers' compensation. The article summarizes the differences in protections available for formal and informal sector workers and measures needed to decrease these disparities in coverage. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accidents Author Keywords: Informal Workers Formal Workers Occupational Health Disparities Occupational Safety Occupational Safety And Health Part-time Workers Policy Social Security Temporary Workers Thailand

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  189-211
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052925
• Citation:
  New Solut 2015 Aug; 25(2):189-211
• Contact Point Address:
  Pornpimol Kongtip, Department of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, 420/1 Rajavithi Road, Payathai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
• Email:
  pornpimol.kon@mahidol.ac.th
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20120920
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20150831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:49db6349bddd6fc2827668d16c16f4e43a9cec2e1335fb87827f9ffc13da497c5cf0c7f9fcce555b65c28017f072f66152903547583bdba538a5be09dd48d432
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/215829/cdc_215829_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 179.84 KB ]