The ministry no longer has full authority to handle the migrant workers following the Prime Minister’s latest order. Its members include the Director-Generals of the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Affairs, Treaties and Legal Affairs departments, the Royal Thai Police’s Immigration Bureau, the Director of the Electronic Government Agency, the Interior Ministry’s Department of Provincial Administration, the Transportation Ministry’s Marine Department, the Agriculture Ministry’s Fishery Department and the Labour Ministry’s Department of Employment. Prayut used his power on Wednesday to demote Varanon after it was claimed he had overseen slow progress on the migrant workers register. It was Sirichai who had promoted Varanon to the position of Director-General to handle the cases of millions of migrant workers. To Prayut’s disappointment, the Ministry – and Varanon in particular – dragged their feet over the collection of migrant workers’ bio-data, a source at the labour ministry said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 03, 2017 17:26 UTC