Employment In Myanmar During The COVID-19 Outbreak

Many Thai and international companies have expanded rapidly into Myanmar in recent years, in what had seemed to be an unstoppable expansion of cross-border trade resulting from the country's emergence back onto the global stage. For those companies, the COVID-19 situation in Myanmar has been a cause for much concern and uncertainty—doubly so for those who had hired staff in the jurisdiction, as a lack of clarity regarding their obligations as employers was compounded by a lack of information on the situation on the ground.

While the outbreak in Myanmar looked like it was under control earlier this year, a resurgence—many times stronger than the first wave—has struck in recent months, and Myanmar's recorded cases now number in the tens of thousands, with over 1,100 deaths.