BANGKOK - Department of Employment, Labor Ministry revealed Tuesday its plan to prepare some 25,000 vacancies for flood-affected employees whose jobs were suspended.

Pravit Khiengpol, the department director-general, reaffirmed that every agency under the ministry had been in progress in providing assistance to flood-hit workers and up to 25,000 vacancies had provided for those hard-hit employees who became unemployed in central Rayong, Chon Buri, Prachin Buri and Samut Prakarn provinces, homes to most of factories.

According to the Labor Ministry, 10,827 factories in 17 provinces across the country are being flooded, and 446,777 workers have been succumbed in turn.

The department has also planned to arrange job fairs nationwide and to organize short-term labor workshops for all the people in evacuation centers.

Thus far six industrial estates with over a thousand factories have been inundated by the worst floods in decades. Initial reconstruction budget estimated by government agencies on Monday was set at 100 billion baht ($3.3 billion).