By Yoon Sat - Jun 20, 2024
The Military Council has announced that they will take action against foreign employment agencies that send workers abroad if they cannot provide proof of remittance by the worker they sent abroad to their family.
"They gave a notice. I think the federation is negotiating about it. It's not easy to gather the lists right away. I can't say exactly yet," said an business person who sends workers abroad.
The Ministry of Labor under the Military Council has instructed foreign employment agencies to submit proof of remittance by the worker they sent abroad to their family which is the 25 % of the workers’ salary
Agencies that send more than 50 workers abroad from September to December 2023 are instructed to provide the documents proof of remittance by the worker they sent abroad to their family from September 2023 to April 2024, no later than 5th day of every month.
"It is beneficial for us to pay taxes here. There is no benefit to the tax we have to pay to Myanmar. The truth is that we don't need to pay this tax. We have already paid it all. But they will check it for the renewal of our passports, so we are paying them even if we don’t have to," said a Myanmar worker in Thailand.
There were 65 agencies that sent workers in September 2024, 78 agencies in October, 83 agencies im November and 56 agencies in December that send more than 50 workers monthly.
Those agencies have cannot provide proof of remittance by the worker they sent abroad to their family
via the official banks by June 28th, and the agencies that fail to send it will be temporarily suspended from the process of sending workers to abroad.
The military council is cutting 2 percent of the salary of workers who leave to work in foreign countries as income tax, as well as forcing them to send 25 percent of their salary to their families legally.
