safety
1.New workers are provided with safety training 10 days or more after starting work instead of the day of recruitment, as required by local law
Welfare Committee
1. The committee, in charge of evaluating complaints filed by the workers, does not properly record the corrective actions. carried out regarding the submitted complaints. There is no designated responsible person for this task and no defined guidelines on how to record the details.
2. Instruction posted at suggestion boxes do not include any information on evaluation procedures, such as timeframe required for evaluation of complaints filed, evaluation process, and announcement of evaluation results.
3. Although there is a written procedure on how to file complaints, the detailed steps of the procedures were not communicated to the workers, such as the handling and evaluation of grievances with the respective timeframe. Factory management only informed workers about complaint boxes and how to directly communicate with supervisors and HR personnel; they did not inform workers about how their complaints would be evaluated, the resolution timeframe, and the other grievance procedures.
Wage for Security guard
1. Security guards who are hired by a contracting security agency were required to pay for their uniform and additional equipment: 1.100 Baht per set, 100 Baht per cap, 50 Baht per armband.
2. Security guards are required to provide a medical certificate even if they take sick Security guards are required to provide a medical leave for less than three days: however, local law only requires a medical certificate leave lasts more than three days
3. Security guards are only paid an additional goo aaht when working on. rest days and holidays for 12 hours. Local law requires that workers are paid an additional 150 Baht on days holidays, as well as the overtime premium for the additional rest and four hours of work.
There are no clear guidelines defined in the workplace rules on taking leaves
Annual leave: According to misinforming training slides used in the orientation training, workers are required to use their annual leave within the year without being able to transfer any unused leaves to the next year. . However, this is violating local law stating that annual leave should be either transferred to the next year if unused or should be compensated at the end of the year. Employees are not informed that they will be paid for.