Myanmar Humanitarian Action Centre (MHAC) which gives assistance to Myanmar migrant workers said that over 50 Myanmar migrant workers who were sent to Thailand by Moe Man placement agency under an MoU were fired from their jobs after their employer declared bankruptcy.

Fifty-five Myanmar migrant workers from a poultry processing firm in east Thailand, bordering Cambodia, were sacked from their jobs and now face unemployment.

The administrator of MHAC said that the workers had been in their jobs for only four months and then they were fired without compensation. MHAC is an organization that helps coordinate between workers and their employers.

Currently an MHAC team is visiting the worksite on the Cambodian border and addressing and coordinating the problems being faced by the workers.

An official from MHAC said that Moe Man labour agency was finding new jobs for the workers and coordinating with their employer to obtain outstanding wages, benefits, holiday perks and damages for sacking them.

The factory has not yet evicted the workers from the factory and at present and has allowed them to stay there while they are finding new jobs.

A growing number of Myanmar migrants are entering Thailand legally or illegally in search of work, partly as a response to the poor state of the Myanmar economy post-COVID-19 and post-coup.