110,000 foreign workers work in Laos

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110,000 foreign workers work in Laos

(KPL) An estimated number of 110,000 foreigners are now working in the country, causing a problem for the host to find jobs for its own people.

Head of the Vocational Training Development and Worker Recruitment Department, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Mr. Khamkhanh Phinsavanh said that 80 percent of them worked illegally and the rest had Lao work permits.

He also said that the illegal workers found it easy to enter Laos as it shared long porous borders with four countries.

Another inducement for foreigners to come and work in Laos is that there is a rapid increase in job opportunities created by foreign investment projects.

Because of these reasons, the number of foreign workers, both legal and illegal, has been trending upwards over the last few years.