Thailand has enacted the Employee Welfare Fund. Employers will start submitting contributions and supplementary contributions from employees and employers from 1 October 2025. The idea of Employee Welfare Fund is to provide financial assistance to employees in the event of termination of employment or death. Here are the key points: Who must be members of […]
Under Section 118 of Labour Protection Act of 1998, as administered by the Ministry of Labour, an employer should pay severance pay to an employee who is terminated after the employee has work for a consecutive period of 120 days or more. Hence, Section 119 states that an employer may not pay severance pay to […]
When starting a company in Thailand, the promoters (individual shareholders) should submit an application form and required documents to the Department of Business Development (DBD), Ministry of Commerce, for the purpose of registration. Subsequently, when hiring employees, the company must register itself and its employee(s) with the Social Security Office (SSO), Ministry of Labour, as […]
In Thailand, the Social Security Fund is the government-administered fund that provides social security coverage to the insured persons who are member of the scheme. Foreign employees could not contribute in the Social Security scheme voluntarily. Once the foreigner obtains his Work Permit, the employer has the duty to register him within 30 days from […]
As prescribed by the notification of the Ministry of Labour, foreigners are not allowed to work as a tour guide which involves bringing tourists, whether individually or in groups, to travel to various location and providing advice and information to tourists in Thailand. Moreover, foreigners are also prohibited in engaging in sightseeing tour operation which […]
Employees in Thailand are entitled to 30 days sick leave per year. One of our payroll clients has asked us if there is any government regulations to give more sick leave if an employee gets sick for a long time. In this Covid-19 era, it is possible that an employee had already used all his […]
Our client consulted with us about the need to give an advance notice and severance pay to the employee who has completed the term of employment agreement. A Contract of Employment shall expire upon the completion of the period specified in the Contract of Employment without the need to give an advance notice. See below […]
When you have your employees, full time or part-time, work overtime, you have to pay them 1.5 to 3 times their normal wage. Here is how to calculate overtime for employees. You will take their hourly rate and multiply it by 1.5 for the time outside of the normal work hours on the work days […]
One of our clients in Thailand has an employee who had recently joined them. They were just been informed that she had been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer before she joined them. They wanted to know about paid and unpaid sick leave. How many days of sick leave per Thailand labour law is allowed for […]
One of our clients is faced with an employment issue. In the company’s work rule, it provides 15 days of annual leave which is much more beneficial than the Thai Labor law requirement which is only 6 days per year. There is no restriction that the employee must take all annual leave within the year. […]