In Thailand, labour welfare is considered as a major concern where employers are required to provide the sufficiently comfortable, clean, and safe working conditions to all employees. To ensure that the employee is entitled to benefit from safe working conditions, the Minister of Labour issue Ministerial Regulations Concerning the Provision of Labour Welfare in Workplace […]
One of the grounds for termination of employment of an employee with cause under the Labour Protection Act is repeated violation of work regulations, rules or orders which are both lawful and equitable subsequent to a written warning for which a previous letter of warning has been issued for the particular act. The letter will […]
Even though Thailand’s labour law does not set the retirement age of employees, the interpretation of the Thai Labour Protection Act B.E. 2541 (1998) includes the fact that the retirement of employees is a termination of contract of employment. In case, an employer has included a retirement age in the work regulation, the employer shall […]
In Thailand, employers who hire 10 or more employees must provide the evidences of employment as follows: Work rules & regulations in Thai language for the employees and disclose it at the workplace within 15 days since the day they started employing 10 or more employees. They also have to send a copy of the […]
Regarding the 30 days sick leave per Thailand labor law, does this include weekly holidays when you take a sick leave? That is a question from an Employee in Thailand that has just undergone a knee operation and has taken 30 days sick leave. Her employer informs her that she is over the quota of […]
Studies show that minimum wage hike policy for 2012 has posed no effect on Thailand’s overall economy, indicated by low unemployment rate and a small number of layoff, while business owners have been able to adjust themselves well for the minimum wage hike. Therefore, it is expected that the minimum wage hike in 2013 will […]
To prevent deprivation of rights, the member of Thailand Social Security or so called insured persons should claim social security compensation within 1 year after the date entitled to compensations in any of the following cases except for the unemployment benefit: In the event of illness or accident and the insured persons received medical treatment at […]
Thailand labour law says that employees are entitled to unlimited sick leave but the number of paid sick days is only up to 30 regular workdays per year. The employer can ask an employee to produce a certificate from a qualified doctor for a sick leave of three days or more. What happens if an […]
The Thai labor law stipulated that the maximum number of working hours of employees in Thailand is 8 hours a day and not more than 48 hours a week. The employer and the employee may agree to arrange the period of working hours for some types of works, as stipulated by the Thai labor law, […]
When an employer company in Thailand wants to terminate an employee, they need to give an advance notice in writing before or on the date the salary payment is due for the termination to take effect on the next salary payment due date. If the employer terminates an employee and wants the termination to take […]