ThailandRyan

At the salon now getting my pedicure, girl asked for my phone number, GF asked her why....lol

So an emergency passport was not available to you? I mean a sort of temporary replacement until the new one arrives with a letter Indicating the temporary nature? Must be a sad embassy.

Yes, she ran her salon here in Bangkok for 5 years, while also running one in the Philippines, where I met here. She had 3 employees prior to covid and she is a certified Paul Mitchell colorist. With covid she sold the Cebu shop and then had to close the one in BKK. When she could finally reopen she only had 2 employees and when they stopped by to check told her she could not style hair or color hair anymore like before as it was a job fir Thais. So she closed up shop and her two Thai workers were unemployed. Luckily she had money stored away and a paid for home in Nonthaburi and in Myanmar. Now she is my personal barber....work permit pending for working in a Salon as a cleaner....

Same here but mine is from Myanmar. Life is good.

And is why I just bought a Weber BBQ for my house here in PKK....lol. Glad I now live in a gated Moo Ban.

looking for those businesses not paying taxes or registering one could surmise.

Not my experience, my mother and grandmother were stay at home wives who took care of the house, cleaning, cooking raising the kids etc.. while My father worked as well as my Grandfather did to make the money to pay for the house, the car, clothes etc...it was my job as a kid to mow the lawns, wash the car, and take care of the outside while my father rested on the weekends, for that I received an allowance or my sports costs were paid for. No playing until the chores were done, and when I turned 13 I picked up a paper route. My Mother received a monthly stipend which she used to buy the groceries etc... That all changed in the 70's when my Mother went to work as prices were rising and my fathers pay was not keeping up. Never met a women, even when I started dating that paid her half, no going halfs for anything. This paying for themselves did not start until late in the 80's and so on......and no paying for a date did not mean I was getting any.... With my marriage in the US, I paid for the house and the family insurance etc....while the wife's pay from her job as a teacher went for her sports activities, the kids sports activities and anything else she decided to spend it on.

So as suspected it is for only those employed by registered companies. How many of the tourism businesses are registered, like the food carts, massage workers, trinket sellers walking around etc...I still find Thailand's posted numbers an actual farce, sorry, not a dig at you just the labor department.

Why? if they are retired and just assisting with the daily chores like setting up tables to help the overworked wife with no customers in the shop, or when driving her to the local Talad to buy the days produce and meat, does one need a chauffer's license...Some of the most stupid things this country does to make life for some people hard. I was out trimming the trees on the now ex-wifes property surrounding the house, back when we were married, and I was living outside of Udon Thani. A few local police arrived and they asked me what I was doing with the chainsaw, and when I pointed to the piles of limbs, they called the wife out. I was told it was illegal for me to have a Chainsaw and to be out cutting the limbs from the trees, as I needed a work permit and a special license for the chainsaw. So I sold the chainsaw to the neighbor and instead hired some Cambodian workers who worked for her in her Rubber Tree orchard to cut the branches up. Oh and I still used the wood after it dried to make Charcoal for the home barbeque I had made from Bricks and Mortar which looked like this Guess I was still needing a work permit to build the BBQ....just so I could cook, which I must still need a work permit for since cooking is a job a Thai can do.

He does not need a physical one as they are now Digital Work permits....must have been in his cell phone....

So like the kid asking mom "Are we almost there" or is it like the renta a date here in Thailand "Are you almost finished", which Coming soon.

Where did you find the statistic that unemployment is barely 1%. How many of the tourism related jobs ie..cashiers, maids, staff and so on are actually reported to the labor ministry? Many work under the table and most never pay any taxes, so I have a feeling the less than 1% is for major businesses such as factories, Major companies, convenience style stores like 7-11, gas stations, etc.....

And the BOT and the speculators believe more money will be spent in the country by the arrivals and so the Baht becomes stronger, when in reality as you said very little will actually hit the economy and move around here.....

@MistyDid your digital work permit ever get completed.

Then ask the owner unless it is you to put a door in between the units to access, but then you'll have a 2nd kitchen as well for the guests etc...

Wonder what the status is for the high speed train to head into PKK from Suvarnabhumi

Ask Prayut.....

Why my GF shut her shop down....ugh.

It's why I hired a housekeeper from Myanmar....

Yep, " Hey Rasputin, how's that deal going, you know the one to get me some land I can make my own country"

Ergo my comment above

Well the new vaccine Thailand is creating is almost ready....

Ahhhh, you mean like the Chinese at a shrimp buffet....looks like the shrimp are to little when cash is king.

He did fight....to stuff his pockets as well...I mean how can he not dispute where his billions came from.

Shamefully activity, a shakedown to allow continued operating of illegal activities. Sounds like they should be charged with not only extortion but also aiding and abetting. Charge them and prosecute them as accessories to the Chinese Triad.....better yet bin the whole police agency from the top down and redo it like the UAE did years ago.