Performing additional work with most recent WP rules

[Repton1]

Good evening,

 

I currently have a work permit through a company in Thailand. Does this entitle me to take on additional contract work with other companies in the same field? If so, is there anything important I should be aware of? Can I simply start performing work for the other company, invoice them and declare the income, all whilst remaining within the law?

 

Appreciate any advice.

[ricklev]

A friend I work with  had her lawyer contact the labor office in Bangkok who confirmed that she could consult/contract with other companies without adding them to her work permit.  However, that was a year ago.  I would also be interested in the current situation.

[khunPer]

9 hours ago, ricklev said:

A friend I work with  had her lawyer contact the labor office in Bangkok who confirmed that she could consult/contract with other companies without adding them to her work permit.  However, that was a year ago.  I would also be interested in the current situation.

Yes, that's also what I've read after they eased the rules about work permit...????

[Boomer6969]

I would check with your current employer first. Where I worked we had to get approval for any activity, paid or unpaid, we wanted to have outside of XXXX (a UN agency).

[mrwebb8825]

A question along these similar lines: Can a foreigner teach P.E.? Doesn't that fall under the jobs a Thai can perform and thus making it off limits to a foreigner?

Personal reason for asking is, I just got assigned a P.E. class at the school I was hired to teach English at. I don't want to be breaking any rules plus I'm 61 yrs old and don't relish running around a basketball court or soccer court with a bunch of 9 yr olds. ????

[Repton1]

Appreciate everyone's advice. I'm surprised no one is completely sure on this rule as I would have thought it a common situation. Just giving the thread a final bump, if nothing conclusive I'll have a go calling the labor dept and try to get it straight from the horse's mouth.

[khunPer]

9 hours ago, Repton1 said:

Appreciate everyone's advice. I'm surprised no one is completely sure on this rule as I would have thought it a common situation. Just giving the thread a final bump, if nothing conclusive I'll have a go calling the labor dept and try to get it straight from the horse's mouth.

If you search, you find a few articles here – those are the ones I referred to reading in my answering post...

 

 

 

 

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

On 8/18/2020 at 8:48 AM, mrwebb8825 said:

A question along these similar lines: Can a foreigner teach P.E.? Doesn't that fall under the jobs a Thai can perform and thus making it off limits to a foreigner?

Personal reason for asking is, I just got assigned a P.E. class at the school I was hired to teach English at. I don't want to be breaking any rules plus I'm 61 yrs old and don't relish running around a basketball court or soccer court with a bunch of 9 yr olds. ????

Plenty of foreigners teaching PE, at my current and previous schools. You're not just teaching them PE, you're doing it in English, which is something not too many Thais do, or do well. ???? At my current school, some of these teachers are up there in age. Rest assured, their activity mostly consists of standing in the middle of a smaller sized football pitch, observing, shouting orders and encouragements, and walking up and down the students in rows doing the same, as they do their exercises. These are primary students. I wouldn't expect them to have you try keeping up with the older ones.

[ricklev]

On 8/19/2020 at 12:02 PM, Repton1 said:

Appreciate everyone's advice. I'm surprised no one is completely sure on this rule as I would have thought it a common situation. Just giving the thread a final bump, if nothing conclusive I'll have a go calling the labor dept and try to get it straight from the horse's mouth.

What did the Labor Office say?