ACTING on complaints that foreigners were taking up jobs traditionally reserved for Thais on Koh Phangan, police and local officials launched an investigation during the Full Moon party on Thursday May 4, 2023 and arrested a Ukrainian man working without a permit, Naewna newspaper said today (May 6). A team of Surat Thani Immigration
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New labour law supporting work from home setup takes effect
COMING into effect today (Apr. 19) is the Labor Protection Act (No. 8) B.E. 2566 upon promulgation in the Royal Gazette with this legislation supporting work from home arrangements between employers and employees, Matichon newspaper and Tilleke & Gibbins law firm said. The new legislation states that an employee may work outside the employer’s
Read morePress association pushes for probe of TV channel after employee’s death
THE THAI Journalists Association today (Feb. 6) called for the investigation of a TV channel after an employee died at his desk upon having to work very hard putting in overtime without pay and being deprived of days off, Amarin TV and Matichon newspaper said. The unidentified 40-year-old deceased man, whose death was announced
Read moreNo pay for 4 infected employees who broke the work from home rule
GOING viral on Thai social media is the risky behaviour of four employees of a company who after three days of working from home went out to eat and shop at a mall where they caught coronavirus with the company now not paying their wages and compensation because they violated a clear rule to
Read moreCouch or cubicle? Vaccine may not lure Americans back to the office
By Reuters Staff, published by United States News Washington: Zoom fatigue? Isolation from colleagues? A craving for lamb shawarma from the downtown food truck? Nah. Months into a pandemic that has changed work-life balance into a work-life M.C. Escher drawing – with the end of one and the beginning of the other now indistinguishable –
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