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Did I understand this correctly Rather than gaining international certification such as ISO14001 they have written their own standards and declared themselves excellent?

I don't sorry. You need to give the Ministry of Public Health a call for more in depth information.

8 hours ago, Sam564 said:

okay thanks, but what if i send money like 300-400k Bath every month, would i raise suspicion with the bank?

Send foreign currency not Baht.

If you do that the banks couldn't care less. Many foreigners send many millions of Baht in foreign currency.

Use a professional company such as Asian Tigers:

https://www.asiantigers-mobility.com/thailand/

They arrive with one or multiple trucks/vans and many workers to get the job done.

Don't complain about the price though.

5 hours ago, Argus Tuft said:

So which companies didn't pull out after this debacle??

Anything to do with sponsor's names has been erased from the website. However this peta page lists:

Banfi, Benihana of Tokyo, Diversey, IBM, INVNT, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!

https://support.petalatino.com/page/4759/action/1?locale=en-US

They are referring to the work permit approval letter. The way they school is doing it means you have to be outside of the country when they apply, hence the need to exit and to email them a scanned copy.

They will collect the approval letter then (probably) send it to you so you can apply for a single entry non B visa. 

On 05/02/2018 at 1:02 PM, OJAS said:

...to which, of course, would need to be added the courier fees of sending an application from the With-It Building to the UK and the replacement passport from the UK to the With-It Building (which may or may not be increased at the same time).

Applicants need to submit at floor 28 of the Trendy Office building on Sukhumvit Soi 13.

Wherever the With-It Building is, it's not the correct location.

33 minutes ago, IsaanFam said:

From my understanding the doctor holds his license for himself to operate for the company and in the case he does not want to work anymore, he can be replaced by another doctor which also needs to apply for a license to work for this company.

 

Or does it mean that the license granted for the company based on the premises is tied to this one doctor and if the doctor is changing (e.g. getting a second doctor who also gets a license for himself to work for the company), the license for the company/premises must be done again? This would be a real deal breaker, but I doubt it is that way.

 

And yes, without a doctor customers cannot be served. But why the doctor does not need me? I mean, it is kind of philosophically, because it's about money and not about personal attachments, so either he wants to make money or not.

You need a minimum of one doctor linked to your company/premises. You can of course have more.

If your premises license needs to be renewed and you have no doctor at all (you have to supply copies of his medical license, ID card, etc with your application) then the premises license will expire and you have to start again with a fresh application.

The doctor won't need you because they can work in any clinic or set up one or many clinics of their own. Doctors are not short of cash, or friends willing to invest in them.

You won't be offering them anything they can't get elsewhere (unless they are dreadful).

I have promptpay registered to my phone number. I entered the number during the application process and clicked the promptpay option.

I received a cheque about 3 weeks later.

On 3/28/2018 at 12:55 PM, Srinakarin said:

...the unrealistic recruitment criteria listed for the majority of jobs these days...

Which is why you don't go through the HR department. Get hold of the expat manager, be straight and tell them that HR is looking for unicorns, when they would be much better off hiring a horse.

On 3/29/2018 at 2:52 PM, Srinakarin said:

...I'm now coming to the conclusion that you don't get anywhere in life without asking...

Hiring managers are not mind readers or clairvoyants. They can't find people they don't know about. No manager I know minds being asked about employment opportunities. We get it all the time; it's part of the job. We probably only take 1 out of 100 cold calls further, but as I said, if the right person walks through the door at the right time then the hiring manager will pay attention.

As @Pib says, it's a long standing issue. Your only option is to accept it.

5 hours ago, jackdd said:

According to this site http://www.thailawonline.com/en/others/labour-law/forbidden-occupations-for-foreigners-jobs.html it's forbidden

According to the Ministry of Labour it's not :)

SCB has to do something. They have about 1,200 branches and they are closing about 700 of them in the next couple of years.

For them it's all going digital.

What do people think about getting your bag wrapped in plastic for 100 baht?

Is that going to deter a thief as they would also have to cut the plastic off before chopping the lock open.

It takes just a few days. You being in Thailand doesn't make the process go any quicker, other than eliminating the time to mail documents both ways.

Why didn't she snatch the cars back? She knew their location down to a few meters and I'm sure she had a spare key.

What could anyone do? She is the registered owner.

5 hours ago, Thian said:

Thailand has very good beef, i've been searching 15 years for it but finally found it....and nope i'm not going to tell where it's sold cause it 'll be mod lew next time i go buying.

 

But only that butcher has it, for the rest thai beef is good for making shoes.

 

Coffee is in the makro and Foodland...the brand Douwe egberts in the silver alufoil packets....best buy in the Makro...169 for 500 gram....

So Thailand has enough good beef to feed a few people - a negligible quantity then. The fact is 99.9 per cent of it is rather nasty.

As for coffee - I was talking about Thai coffee that is grown in Thailand.

Thai beef is really quite bad. I don't think most Thai people realise quite how bad it is because it's normally sliced into thin strips. If you have a Thai steak it's quite hard work.

Thai dairy is ok, but overpriced.

Coffee? I've yet to taste anything worth drinking.

I hope this agreement brings better products to market at a fair price - which in turn raises the currently dire standards.

@Srinakarin She has to identify the area, if any, that she prefers. Try and do a bit of research about foreign run companies, then just walk in. She needs confidence, because if she gets hired she could well be giving the people around her work instructions or training.

Getting to talk to the expat manager is key, because they will be the only person with the authority or inclination to hire her. She needs a stack of nicely written CVs (in English), with a photo printed on the front page in colour and a copy of her ID card. Surprisingly quite a few CVs end up on the correct desks, and an experienced manager can spot a promising candidate in about 10 seconds. Try putting a eye-catching post it note on the front of the CV saying, "Please refer me to your colleagues". It's little touches like that which expat managers do not see very often, but they count for a lot.

It might take 100 walk ins, it might take 500 - but I guarantee you someone out there will hire her for reasonable or good money. It's a common lament among expat managers that they cannot find good quality staff (good quality meaning has English skills and can make competent decisions - somebody who actually gets it's not the 5 baht or whatever, it's the principle).

When she's interviewed by the manager, tell them how many different companies she has walked into. They will value her persistence, and her commitment to achieving her goals. I guarantee they will employ someone like that as opposed to someone younger who has a degree in something or other that is probably not even slightly relevant to the position that is on offer.

Take the help graciously offered by @johnnybangkok.

Alternatively, consider approaching reasonably sized businesses that are managed by English speaking foreigners. Such businesses are always looking for Thais who speak English well, who understand our way of thinking and who "get it". For us, a degree means little compared to being able to communicate with and trust someone.

I am just such a person. One day a few years ago I was managing a business in Bangkok when a very pleasant Thai lady came in looking for work. She spoke great English because she was married to a man from New Zealand. She also had a pleasant personality.

I hired her on the spot and she started work the next day. She too had not finished her Bachelors degree, but after I employed her she went back to uni part time to finish it.

Fast forward a few years and now she has an MBA and she runs one of our business units. I have to say she is fantastic at her job, which is very well paid.

I've never regretted hiring her. She is proof that a degree isn't everything, and that sometimes you just have to hire someone based on what you feel, not just on the facts.

Best hiring decision I ever made.

Yes it is possible. I have a work permit that allows me to be a property agent.

It's not easy to get though, due to the business/tax requirements of a business that deals in immovable property.

Specifically, the Ministry of Labour will want your business to be registered for Specific Business Tax, which is a big undertaking, and not something for a new or a small company to consider. SBT puts your company very much under the microscope, which a lot of people don't want.

As I said, it's possible, but difficult to comply. This is why there are very, very few property agents with the correct work permit. Most agents are employed as managers or something similar, then they do what they have to do discretely.

5 hours ago, NilSS said:

...Libya doesn't count...

It was reported a while back that Thailand has now surpassed Libya in road traffic fatalities.

12 minutes ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Pretty much, she can.

She can demand, but it won't be done.

A usufruct is a real property right, which takes precedence over contract law.

If you know of any cases where a Land Office has cancelled a usufruct based solely upon the demand of a spouse, please let me know.

I work in the property industry in Thailand, and in my experience the Land Office won't cancel a usufruct unless either the usufruct is time expired, the usufructee dies or a Court orders it.