When the Thai Ministry of Labor conducted over fifty thousand inspections of fishing crews in 2016, it found not a single instance of laws being broken on matters such as conditions and hours of work, wages, and treatment on board. On the other hand, when the ILO interviewed the same types of workers from the same period, it revealed a very different picture. Nearly half of the workers had illegal deductions being taken from their wages, less than half the workers could recall having signed a contract, and about 16 percent had their identification documents taken away by employers to ensure
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