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More than 3,000 migrants have been caught working without a permit as authorities crack down on those employed in jobs prohibited for foreign workers, according to the Department of Employment, reports the Bangkok Post.

From October last year to Monday, the department randomly inspected 53,732 workplaces which hire migrant workers nationwide and the agency found 3,464 migrant workers were employed without a permit, the report says.

Of them, 1,850 were from Myanmar, 636 from Cambodia, 562 from Lao, 145 from Vietnam and the rest from other countries.

Most migrants without permits and those in prohibited jobs were found in Bangkok and the major provinces of Nonthaburi, Chiang Mai, Chon Buri, Nakhon Pathom and Ranong.

Also, another 1,634 workers were doing jobs prohibited for migrants.

They are working in prohibited jobs allowed only to Thai nationals, the daily paper reported.

Under Thai law, 40 jobs are barred from being offered to migrants.

Migrants found working in the 40 prohibited jobs face a fine ranging from 5,000 to 50,000 baht and they will also be deported back to their home country and have a two-year employment ban in Thailand.