Workers need 6,000-baht remittance document for MoU U-turn process to Thailand

The Department of Labour, under the Ministry of Labour, has announced that starting from 1 August, workers who wish to return to Thailand under the MoU U-turn system are required to present a document proving that they have already remitted 6,000 baht to their relatives in Myanmar.
In addition, the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation (MOEAF) has been instructed by the Department of Labour that workers must provide documentation showing that 25 per cent (6,000 baht) of their basic salary for three months (approximately 24,000 baht) has been sent to their family or to the worker’s bank account in Myanmar when processing workers through the U-turn process at MoU U-turn camps in Myawady and Kawthoung. — TWA/MKKS