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Songkran compensation days off set for September

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Songkran compensation days off set for September

By The Nation

 

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At its meeting on Thursday (August 13), the Cabinet unanimously voted to mark Friday September 4 and Monday September 7 as public holidays to compensate for this year’s Songkran holidays that were cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak. 

 

The four-day weekend in September was a good choice as this month does not have any public holidays, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30392910

 

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-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-08-13
 
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  • Yes, of course it's vitally important to make sure that the civil servants don't miss a single day of the paid leave to which they're entitled, the government can worry about the millions of jobless p

  • josephbloggs
    josephbloggs

    When Thais are only entitled to six days per year annual paid leave - and none in their first year of employment in any particular work place - you want to begrudge them their entitlement to go home a

  • They do like their holidays

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They do like their holidays

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Yes, of course it's vitally important to make sure that the civil servants don't miss a single day of the paid leave to which they're entitled, the government can worry about the millions of jobless people going hungry afterwards.

Maybe.

Probably not, though.

40 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Yes, of course it's vitally important to make sure that the civil servants don't miss a single day of the paid leave to which they're entitled, the government can worry about the millions of jobless people going hungry afterwards.

Maybe.

Probably not, though.

The holiday is for non civil servants too. In your country they stopped the holidays because they have unemployed?

Edited by FritsSikkink

That aligns perfectly with the Labor day weekend holiday in the US....lol.  Looks like the US Embassy staff will be only getting those days off as they normally would, speaking of Thai personnel. So a 4 day drunk fest is on the books.  Lock up your women and children as all hell is sure to break out as its the first weekend of the Month and Thai's are sure to have money to burn.  Sure the Pattaya resorts and beaches will be busy.  That just means that Bangkok will be nice and calm as everyone will flee.

Yet another long weekend.

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What? Only Four deadly days instead of seven.

Lets hope that keeps the road deaths numbers reduced this year and they are not compensated for also.

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3 hours ago, JoePai said:

They do like their holidays

Who doesn't? 

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the only relevance this has to me is:

is the water terror coming so i have to stock up yet again ?

How many Songkran replacement days are there?

 

Songkran is normally a three day holiday. Have we really only had one extra day so far/

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4 minutes ago, madmitch said:

How many Songkran replacement days are there?

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Have we really only had one extra day so far/

Yes.

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6 hours ago, Guderian said:

Yes, of course it's vitally important to make sure that the civil servants don't miss a single day of the paid leave to which they're entitled, the government can worry about the millions of jobless people going hungry afterwards.

Maybe.

Probably not, though.

When Thais are only entitled to six days per year annual paid leave - and none in their first year of employment in any particular work place - you want to begrudge them their entitlement to go home and visit family?  Why do you think it's only civil servants?  It is all working Thais.  Don't you think factory workers, cleaners, office workers deserve it?

Cambodia also cancelled their New Year holiday (same time as Songkran) and they have given it back as a 5-day lump next week.  

7 hours ago, JoePai said:

They do like their holidays

But factory and most businesses still work on most holiday having mandatory OT with being normal 6 days a week on going. If Thailand was Egypt Thailand would be able to make a pyramid in normal Egyptian time. 

25 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

But factory and most businesses still work on most holiday having mandatory OT with being normal 6 days a week on going. If Thailand was Egypt Thailand would be able to make a pyramid in normal Egyptian time. 

A lot of factory workers have been given this week off

14 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

A lot of factory workers have been given this week off

They aren't the true Songkran days and 2 of those are falling on weekend days. So normally and normal times I say ok, but word is still out. Maybe 1 extra per worker for the 4 days off. Hard to tell. Oddly what nobody sees, is Thai seem to always give one day off and take it back for work somewhere else to make it up. But most Staff Thai businesses work 10-12 hrs everyday as well. Not talking about the factory management in the factory daily or workers themselves. They always work a lot, and now this year is a lot more. 

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15 hours ago, anchadian said:

Yet another long weekend.

Four days of road carnage!

10 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

When Thais are only entitled to six days per year annual paid leave - and none in their first year of employment in any particular work place - you want to begrudge them their entitlement to go home and visit family?  Why do you think it's only civil servants?  It is all working Thais.  Don't you think factory workers, cleaners, office workers deserve it?

.....and who makes the rules?

17 hours ago, Guderian said:

Yes, of course it's vitally important to make sure that the civil servants don't miss a single day of the paid leave to which they're entitled, the government can worry about the millions of jobless people going hungry afterwards.

Maybe.

Probably not, though.

That literally makes zero sense

Whatever they do. The most important thing is that I didn't get wet this year. Completely insane these endless water battles here in Pattaya. 

18 hours ago, JoePai said:

They do like their holidays

Every month... 

16 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Every month... 

Ate we talking about the woman's monthly visit from Aunt Flo where she takes a holiday for 2 days or are we talking about the Thai government.

The dates look good for those of us on pensions which are paid into Thai bank accounts at the beginning of each month.

23 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Every month... 

Not every month.

kids will love it

All public holidays should be banned, along with lunch hours.

These things have been nothing but an inconvenience (to me) for decades.

 

The Thai Tourist board will be rubbing their hands

Think of the large  numbers of  Thais and expats travelling to Pattaya , Hua Hin 

Hotels full restaurants packed 

Happy days 

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not every month.

So far this year every month accept March...

47 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

So far this year every month accept March...

So, NOT EVERY month.

What is wrong with these people, the road carnage is going to be  off the charts.

 

They must be getting kickbacks from the coffin makers.

 

Am glad I worked the first sub day cause now I can add it to these and have a 5 day weekend !!

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