Employment Letter after Leaving Thai Company

[Ama Rylls]

Dear Forum,

 

Today I wanted to seek some counsel on an employment letter after termination of my employment contract at a Thai company in Phuket. 

 

I've heard that by law, the company is required to provide me with a letter confirming my job title, salary, start & end date, and an official company stamp. The company may not state the reason I'm no longer at the company, whether I left by choice or it was a dismissal etc.

 

1. Is this true? 

2. If so, by when is the company obligated to provide me with this letter? 

 

3. What should the contents of this letter include? 

 

Any useful links to official pages would go a long way.

 

Thank you for taking a moment to reply, your support is greatly appreciated.
 

[FritsSikkink]

^{Not true, there is no such statement in the law:}

^{http://www.thailaws.com/law/t_laws/tlaw0132a.pdf}

[Don Mega]

Just now, FritsSikkink said:

^{Not true, there is no such statement in the law:}

^{http://www.thailaws.com/law/t_laws/tlaw0132a.pdf}

Interesting, I started a new job in July last year and part of the documents requested for the work permit was one from my previous employer confirming my job title, salary, start & end date, and an official company stamp.

[JHolmesJr]

If you had good relations in that company you could type up the letter

and they will like sign it....as long as your title and salary and duration of service is correct

you could probably state your reasons for departure in favourable terms even if they weren't.

[Ama Rylls]

19 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

If you had good relations in that company you could type up the letter

and they will like sign it....as long as your title and salary and duration of service is correct

you could probably state your reasons for departure in favourable terms even if they weren't.

This is probably the best way forward, I did leave on good terms. Also, if I let them write it there are bound to be grammatical errors.