Someow I'm not surprised by this in Thailand. Aside from airlines, here are some common employment tricks by crooked Thai employers: Hire someone on minimum wage, promising a raise and health insurance, etc., but only after they complete 3 months of a trial period. Then when the 3 months is completed, they don't renew the contract for some flimsy reason and do the same thing all over again with another person. If an employee phones in sick, they are docked that day's pay In addition to docking the pay for a day absent, many employers in medium sized shops will cut wages even further for the amount of business/income lost because the employee wasn't there doing the job and making money for the business. I've heard stories about police (not sure if this is true) where they had to pay a pooyai to get the job as a cop, then had to buy their own motorcycle and even their own gun!
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