Khon Kaen Employment Office

1. KhonKaen Employment Office Welcome Mekong Institute

2. KhonKaen Employment OfficeMinistry of Labour Address: 490, Maliwan Rd., Moo 6, Banped sub-district, Muang, KhonKaenTel: 043-333200-1 Email: kkn@doe.go.th Website: www.doe.go.th

3. Vision • “Towards to effective organization which promoting the employment, labour protection, and serve the updated information of labour market "

4. Mission 1. Serve the domestic job seeking and promote the employment 2. Provide career guidance 3. Serve oversea employment and labour protection 4. Control and take care of migrant workers and entrepreneurs 5. Develop system and create information network of labour market

5. Administration structure KhonKaen Employment Office KhonKaen Employment Office Employment Promotion Job seeker protection and migrant worker control General admin.

6. Manpower: 34 staff • Civil servants 10 • Permanent employee 4 • Government staff 4 • Temporary employee 4 Sub-contract projects9

7. Ms. NilubonManunartwimonkrit Chief, KhonKaen Employment office

8. Ms. PatchareeKawisawas Head, Employment Promotion Section

9. Gen. AtthapholSrikalp Head, Protection of Job seekers and migrant workers

10. Employment Promotion Section • Domestic Employment • Career promotion and career guidance • Academic and policy planning

11. Protection of Job seekers and migrant workers • Overseas employment and protection of job seekers • Control and take care of migrant workers

12. General Administration • Admin • Human resource Finance and procurement Vehicle

13. 1. Serve the domestic employment and promote employment Provide service to job seekers and employers/enterprenuers without charge to promote jobseekers and students to get income and access proper jobs. This will help to decrease the unemployment and labour shortage situation.

14. Process of job application with KKEO (Domestic) - Get application form - Fill in application form - Prepare job application documents Seek for available positions Meet with the employment officer Get queue card Meet employer Meet officer who provide job guidance

15. Employment information (domestic) Available position8,291 Applicant 11,824 Success Recruitment 6,653

16. Employment service activity (domestic) Provide service by KK Employmentofficer Clients of the KK Employment Office

17. Employment service activity (domestic) Job applicants study the job announcement broad(private and government positions)

18. Employment service activity (domestic) Employment Mobile Service

19. Employment and guidance for sub-contract working at home 2. Provide guidance to job seekers and students to apply their knowledge for appropriate job or further their study.

20. Provide service on career guidance Provide career guidance for students to prepare for job application (5,253 clients) Promote employment 8 batched /132 clients Promote sub-contract working at home1 batch/12 clients

21. Career Guidance Activity • Provide career guidance in office

22. Career guidance networking Provide training to the career guidance providers (teachers and labour volunteers)

23. Career guidance providing in Education institutes Provide career guidance for students

24. Career guidance for soldiers Job recruitment Provide job training

25. Promote alternative careers Provide job training for women and unemployed groups

26. Promote sub-contracted job Provide training for sub-contracted workers

27. Labour Market Exhibition Employers and job seekers meet each other to reduce unemployment situation

28. Labour market exhibition Job application via computer (IT)

29. Labour Market Exhibition Employer directly interview the job applicants

30. Labour Market Exhibition Exhibition of sub-contracted workers

31. Labour Market Exhibition Employer demonstrate the sub-contracted products

32. Labour Market Exhibition Entrepreneurs introduce franchise business

33. 3. Provide overseas employment service and labour protection Provide service for clients who want to work overseas and settle the center for prevention and protection labourfrom trafficking according to the labour laws

34. ศูนย์ประสานบริการการไปทำงานต่างประเทศ Thailand Overseas Employment Administration Providesupport to job seekers who intends to work overseas in term of reducing the relevant expenses, protection labour from trafficking, and facilitating job seekers to directly meet with the legal employers.

35. Process of service for jobseekers to access overseas works Methods of working overseas 1. Sent by the agency 2. Sent by employment department 3. Personal arrangement 4. Employer facilitate 5. Employer take employees for training • Prepare document • Apply job • Prepare passport Job seekers register their intention to work abroad • Applying/Selection • (Employer and job applicants) - Health check-up - Employment contract Employer request working visa for their prospective employees Employeeget training before the travel Employee travel abroad

36. Statistic of Thai labour working overseas (5 Legal methods) 1. Arrange travel by themselves 455 2. Employer bring them out for training 98 3. Sent by employment agency 33 4. Sent by employment department 10 5. Employer facilitate the travel 2

37. Top 5 countries where Thai labour work 1. Israel 2. Singapore 3. Taiwan 4. Finland 5. Korea

38. Working overseas service and labour protection Registration to work overseas 3,205 No. of labour working overseas 598 Return Thailand 2,556 Pettitions 191 person/5,492,000 THB Get assistance 52 person and get support of 2,009,786.46 THB

39. Provide service for working overseas Get assistant to work overseas

40. Provide service for working overseas Provide training for workers who intend to work overseas

41. Provide service for working overseas Officervisit community to provide knowledge of working overseas

42. Control and investigate migrant workers 4. Administrate migrant workers in terms of considering work permitand investigate migrant workers whether or not they legelly enter the country, especially for 3 nationals (Myanmar, Lao PDR and Cambodia)

43. Process to get the wok permit of migrant workers Migrant workers prepare relevant documents and apply for work permit Officerprovide opinion to the registration chief Officer check documents The registration chief consider to issue the work permit Migrant workers pay the fee for work permit Migrant workers follow-up the work permit document

44. Information of migrant workers There are 4,876 migrant workers obtained the work permit in KhonKaen; 1. Legal migrants 4,291 2. Illegal migrants 585

45. No. of Migrant workers in KhonKaen Total number of migrant workers in KhonKaen4,876 Illegal migrants with special permit of immigrant law (cabinet consensus) 585 Legal migrant4,291 Temporary residence (NON IMM) 515 Promote investment 64 Waiting for national verification 562 (Myanmar 288, Laos198, and Cambodia 78 Migrant from high-land 23 • MOU1,444 (Myanmar946, Laos 484 and Cambodia 14 ) National verified 2,268(Myanmar2,047, Laos169, and Cambodian 52 Updated info. as of 25 Oct 2012

46. Top 5 Legal Migrant Workers holding workpermit 1. British 2. American 3. Pilipino 4. Chinese 5. Japanese

47. Top 5 categories of works with the biggest no. of legal workers • 1.Teachers • 2.Engineer / technician • 3.Manger • 4.Consultant / Specialist • 5.Volunteer / missionary (no wage)

48. Top 5 business where illegal migrant workers are found 1. Fishing netfactory 2. Shoes factory 3. Domestic works 4. Construction 5. Restaurant (food and drink industries)

49. Providing service for migrant workers Migrant workers apply work permit

50. Develop and initiate the labour market information 5. Improve the public relation service and information flow of job vacancy for people through government offices and local administrative office, as well as via website www.doe.go.th/khonkaen