On November 29, 2022, at 13.30 hours, the Permanent Secretary of Labour, Mr. Boonchob Suttamanaswong, assigned the Ministry of Labour’s Inspector-General, Mr. Samat Pattamasukon, to chair the opening meeting to Review and Evaluate Thailand’s National Decent Work Plan 2019 – 2022 and the preparation of the new Thailand Decent Work National Plan 2023 – 2026. The meeting took place at the Kamolthip Room, Sukosol Hotel, Bangkok. He said that the Decent Work Country Program (DWCP) is a cooperation framework that the ILO has established with member countries as a reference document for providing assistance and support to member countries. It is formed by establishing strategies, guidelines, and clear goals that correspond to the context and urgent agenda, both economically and socially, to promote decent work for all. Thailand prepared its first DWCP in 2019. Tripartite representatives and the ILO signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the 2019-2021 DWCP on April 11, 2019, celebrating the ILO’s 100th anniversary. Subsequently, the tripartite committee to drive the implementation of the National Decent Work Plan for Thailand 2019-2021 agreed to extend the implementation period until the end of December 2022. The ILO assigned Asst. Prof. Dr. Jessica Wechbanyongrat, a Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, to review the final performance according to the 2019-2022 plan and start drafting a new plan for the year 2023-2027 in July 2022.
Therefore, the Ministry of Labor and the ILO scheduled a meeting today to review the performance according to the previous work plan. In the meeting, they discussed and considered the draft of the new work plan and considered the appointment of a tripartite committee to drive the implementation of the work plan and the working group to follow up and evaluate the performance according to the new work plan. On behalf of the Ministry of Labour, he thanked the Board of Directors for their cooperation throughout the past to promote decent work for all. He also thanked the ILO for being an important part of supporting decent work for Thai people through various projects in the past and those to come in the future.
