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Prime Minister Mr Chan said steps are under way to resolve the issue after the report on foreign slave-like conditions for migrant workers in the seafood processing plant. (Photo by Thanarak Khunton) Related Stories

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Prayuth Chan-ocha, the Prime Minister has vowed to put officials who have failed to solve the problem seafood processing plant forced labor after the Associated Press that the report highlighted the problem of slavery still Fish, fueling resentment in the port of Samut Sakhon province.

“We are dealing with this issue, we do not have?” Gen Prayuth said. “The arrest is the process.” He insisted that all the perpetrators will be arrested and officials who failed to do their job will be resolved. The Prime Minister said: 'all military police officers and their duties. If they do not fulfill their duties, they would be guilty.

Pol Maj Gen Kornchai Klayklueng commander of the anti-human trafficking division, said officials gathered intelligence to fight password human trafficking, resulting in several arrests.

Contact: migrant workers as food processing complaints Human Trafficking: Strategies dare asylum - police to return It is unlikely to have many factories, such as the use of forced labor has been reported that he has said, although he acknowledged that the device can be hidden and under the radar of law enforcement. Pol Maj Gen Kornchai said he will call a meeting with police to discuss the issue before taking action more. The AP's report released on Monday showed that the slave-like working conditions of workers in Myanmar millers Samut Sakhon peeling shrimp peeling factory gig.

One worker, 22-year-old Tin Nyo Win worked at the factory for the past five months - starting in July This - along with his pregnant wife Shan. According to the report, the couple was lured out of their homes in Myanmar to do the gig shed without a visa or work permit and forced to peel shrimp nearly 80kg for just 144 baht a day. The workers, including children, were attacked and forced to work even when they're sick. The couple eventually tried to escape. Tin Nyo, but his wife's winning success, he was caught.

On 9, zinc Nyo Win has returned to the business with law enforcement officers in search of his wife. She was located in another fish factory nearby. Peeled shrimp with forced labor in the plant into the supply chain's largest seafood exporters and reached the United States, Europe and Asia.

Command Center for Combating Illegal Fishing (CCCIF), said authorities on Monday found the seafood processing plant in 90 coastal provinces since the 9th of 22, and found many of them violate the law protect jobs. Legal action has been initiated against them, Vice Admiral Chumpol Lumpiganon CCCIF public relations department said.

, Chumpol said VADM efforts are being made to force them to comply with regulations, including including wages, working hours and other benefits. Meanwhile, the authorities are to investigate shrimp peeling sheds where human rights violations that were reported.

Shed among several facilities found commitment, said the additional VADM Chumpol that law enforcement will be very serious, and the raids will be carried out very quickly. Chumpol said VADM “We are building awareness among operators seafood processing plant issues . '' In the past, we did not give weight to this issue, but this is the criteria as defined in Now out by the European Union.

ML Boondarik Smithi Permanent Secretary for Labour, said the ministry would try to clamp down on child labor. The ministry is proposing a new law to prevent minors under 18 from working in the plant, ML Boondarik said. Current rules allow plants to employ minors under the age for certain types of work for 17 years, she said. Meanwhile, a source in the fishing industry in Samut Sakhon province, said: The number of child labor in the industry Recycling immense dropped after authorities stepped up control in the last few months, and business operators agreed to cooperate by refraining from the use of child labor and illegal migrant workers. But some small shed peeling may be short of workers and turn out to be undocumented workers included Child workers, said sources.

Meanwhile, the EU registered domestic Thai market (TU), canned fish and the world's largest processor Leading global seafood was also criticized for buying shrimp from the illegal factory. Tu said it would stop working with the previous operating system, all outside, on December 31 to avoid was involved and slave labor, after it could not confirm whether its subsidiaries marine contractors Sub illegal. The company has decided to bring all the operations in the house, which starts at January 201 6 to allow full control of the TU all processing stages.

TU has said, “From January 1 next year, all the processing work will be monitored directly by EU Thailand has ensured that all workers, whether migrants or Thailand, is safe, legal and employment treated properly and with dignity.

The company said: 'We are concerned that despite regular audits, it is difficult to ensure that the process is outside were adhering to our Code of Conduct.When TU stop working with external suppliers than 1,000 workers will lose their jobs. TU has said it will hire the affected workers to work at home, Sasinan Allmand, president of TU's relationship the company said.

“We are implementing our plan to bring before our processing of shrimp products under the Thai Union and will offer safe and legal employment to thousands more workers. This is a positive step towards the target of ridding our country's seafood sector of illegal work practices, “the president said TU Thiraphong Chansiri .