LPN and CPF go ahead with employee training on labor rights

Monday 22 January 2018 16:24
The Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation (LPN) together with Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC (CPF) recently organised training on labor rights for the company's employees, conducting the session in 3 languages - Thai, Myanmar and Khmer to ensure all employees are better equipped with knowledge in labor rights and eagerness in filing recommendations and complaints. The training follows the recent opening of LPN's Labor Voices Center by LPN.

Mr. Sompong Srakaew, Director and Founder of LPN, said that LPN has teamed up with CPF to organize the "Labour Right" training program for the company's Thai and migrant workers, starting with migrant workers at the Min Buri processing food factory. The program's goal is to equip all employees with legal knowledge on labor rights and their own rights under human rights practices. The employees will also be introduced to the "Labor Voices Center by LPN", set up jointly by the foundation and CPF late last year. Through the training, the employees will learn about the center's role and be assured of the center's efficient services.

"The Labor Rights training will assure industrial workers of their legal rights, to help add up their confidence in their work and encourage all to make use of the Labor Voices Center by LPN to which they can directly notify and file complaints as well as recommendations," Mr. Sompong said.

Mr. Parisotat Punnabhum, CP Foods' Executive Vice President of Human Resources, said that the training for CPF's workers is part of the company's plan to educate employees on their own rights, benefits under the labor laws and the company's welfare. The training program followed the opening of the Labor Voices Center by LPN in December 2017, which is operated by the foundation's staff who, with communications skills in Thai, Khmer, Myanmar and English, are ready to receive complaints and recommendations from all workers regardless of their nationalities.

"The Labor Voices Center by LPN and the training reflect the company's determination to ensure equal and fair labor practices in line with human rights standards," he noted.

The first training session was organized at the processing food factory in Min Buri late December, participated by 300 Thai and migrant workers. CPF will roll out more training sessions to cover all workers at all premises across the country.

"The training and the Labor Voices Center by LPN are parts of the company's human rights policy as we aim to lift the quality of all employees' life," he added.