Full SSO pay-out for Lao worker

A Laotian woman who lost a hand in a work-related accident in Phrae last month will be fully compensated, although she is not registered as a legal migrant worker and her workplace is not registered under a social security scheme, the provincial social security office said yesterday.

Kiang Thammalangka would be paid Bt336,960, equivalent to 108 times her monthly salary of Bt3,120, office head Phanthep Paorik said. Her unnamed Thai employer would face legal action for failing to register his/her business with the SSO and to register Kiang as a legal migrant worker.

Phanthep said the payment was intended as a model to embrace the SSO principle that all employees were protected fully for work-related death, disability or injury. Kiang, 20, was a worker at a local coconut plantation whose left hand was severed by a coconut extracting machine on December 28.