IMPROVING THE SURVIVAL RIGHTS OF WORKERS ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

Abstract

The academic article titled "Enhancing the Right to Survival of Workers according to International Standards" aims to study how to enhance the right to survival of workers according to international standards in accordance with the 5th National Human Rights Plan (2023-2027). In this plan, there are challenging situations, such as "the problem of rising household debt and SMEs that cannot access the state's relief measures for the damage caused by the COVID-19 outbreak". Currently, household debt has become a major problem at both the present and national levels, as household debt has risen to 90% of the gross domestic product (GDP). This debt problem not only affects the middle class and the poor, but also erodes the sales of businesses and hinders the Thai economy from moving forward and growing. The target group is defined as employees and self-employed workers, in order to enable both groups to access economic rights, which are rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as to study the model of "using debt to develop people" that originated from Bangladesh and the project of loans for improving the lives of employees and labor banks by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Narong Phetprasert, who proposed and drafted it since 2003 and was included in the draft constitution of 2015, section 289, that this model would enhance the rights of insured workers through the establishment of a fund and a bank for insured workers, in order to achieve human rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or not, and how.