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Nowadays, many Lao factories, especially those producing clothing and processing timber, are calling for more than 100,000 unemployed workers to fill positions this year.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare's Department of Skills Development and Employment hopes to provide jobs to more than 80,000 workers.
It is estimated that Laos currently has around 136,000 unemployed people, according to a ministry official.
Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Laoly Faiphengyoua said this week that the department will encourage businesses to build more workplaces and hold training courses to enhance job skills.
Mr Laoly said the department also hopes to send around 25,000 workers to Thailand this year, after a number of Thai companies had requested additional Lao workers to meet their production demands last year.
The Director of the Employment Promotion Division under the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Mr Bounkham Sihalath, said that more than 300 Thai companies had requested some 52,000 labourers from Laos last year, but the division could provide only 6,500.
The mechanisms used by employment agencies have not worked in placing Lao workers in positions outside of the country, he said.
The number of labourers required in neighbouring countries is high, but if agencies had actively attempted to find work for them, the number of Lao people working in other countries would be much higher, he said.
Mr Bounkham explained that the skills of Lao labourers might be low and when working in another country they would probably get only a minimum wage, but foreign companies nevertheless welcome unskilled workers. However, to increase their earnings, these workers must improve their skills, he stressed.
“Even though many people are unemployed in Laos , we cannot match the demand for workers in other Asean countries, as those who have not registered with employment providers remain hidden,” Mr Bounkham said.
He said the main problem was that these figures were only estimates, which made it difficult to deal with this issue. It was necessary to collect more information on the number of workers available in Laos .
If there were a fund to finance a survey, he added, he would appoint district authorities to compile a labour database with clear details about labourers so that overseas companies could find workers when they were needed.
With a clear database, Mr Bounkham confirmed that the division would be able to find jobs for many of the large number of labourers entering the workforce over the next five years.
The overseas labour market was large and growing; in the past five months alone Laos has processed documents for 3,000 labourers to work in Thailand . A further 157 have taken up legal employment in Malaysia and another 60 in Japan , he said.
For those workers who are very poor, employment agencies will lend them the money to get documents issued, which they can pay back from their wages later. Legally documented workers are guaranteed that they will not be taken advantage of, added Mr Bounkham.
According to a report from the UN International Labour Organisation, from 2000 to 2006, total employment in the Asean market rose by more than 10 percent to 263 million, with more than 27 million jobs created.
At the same time, the unemployment rate in Asean countries rose from 5 to 6.6 percent, with younger workers being the most affected.
Asean member countries need to increase labour productivity and narrow development gaps to ensure sustainable growth and build a thriving community by 2015.
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