PhilHarries Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Thanks for answers, i guess the non-christmas holidays would apply for thais working for thais, but is it not pretty common thais working for farang companies would expect to get a few days off for christmas? With the company I worked for in Thailand, American, December 25th was a normal working day (except if it was a Saturday or Sunday) so if farangs wanted the day off it came out of their annual vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayayay Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Your question has already been answered...No... its not common for Thai;s working in "Farang owned" companies, incidently, what do you define as farang owned anyway ?, Other than Amity agreement owned companies..ie US owners, all Ltd companies in Thailand are Thai owned anyway on 51/49% ownership *sigh* if you did not know, that is of course the regular way you would set up a company as a farang, having the thais "own" the company, but not usually having much to say when it comes to actually direct and manage the company, so when i say farang owned, i mean, owned in the regular way a farang would own/be a part of the company. And yes, i know americans have this special privilege when it comes to this. I think you understood what i meant, but not sure why you want to make this a big deal, maybe you are friends with the other bitter guys in this thread, anyway, not going to spend hours throwing dirt on the bitter/negative/wiseass guys in here, i already spend too much time trying to respond to some of these keyboard warriors in here. Anyway, i appreciate your and some of the other replies. *sigh* I gave you the answer and now you are calling me bitter/negative/wiseass as well....personally think you are trying to be a wiseass....you are being given the answers and either dont want to accept the answer or cant comprehend the answers given... The 12 days referred to TTM gave are on top of the public holidays, because public holidays are not part of someones annual leave entitlement. That was not what i meant, sorry, what i meant when i said, "maybe you are friends with the other..." i shold have said, "maybe you are friends with the bitter guys", sorry for that. And as you might have missed, i said i appreciated your replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayayay Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Yep, new years eve and new years day are the norm for most companies. I guess this applies for thai owned companies, but what about farang owned? My company is American owned, 12 days holidays a year for Thai staff and Xmas dos not exist. Songkran, they take 1 week off, usually. Ok, great, this is interesting, this is exactly what i was wondering about. Thank you! You say 12 days off, which 5 days goes to songkran, what is the other 7 days? Can they take those off whenever they want? I assume you will still give them the regular public holidays off, such as all of those buddah days etc? Public holidays are, of course, observed. Songkran brings 2 days itself. What they do with the rest is their business, but for sure they give no flying <deleted> about Xmas and time around it. Why would anyone waste their holidays on worst time of the year: schools have no break except Jan 1, the weather is cold (seen Thais shivering at 18C?), water is cold, the festivities belong to another world... I am supposed to be of viking heritage, i even remember childhood winters going down below - 25C, but still i start to shiver if temperature goes below +25C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 ....the festivities belong to another world... Got to agree on this, spent many years working in hot climates December time and could never quite figure <deleted> they were organising Xmas dinners with turkey, singing carols, spraying things with fake snow for..in the hot climates where xmas is observed...better just light a BBQ, swim in the pool and get p*ssed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyh Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 ....the festivities belong to another world... Got to agree on this, spent many years working in hot climates December time and could never quite figure <deleted> they were organising Xmas dinners with turkey, singing carols, spraying things with fake snow for..in the hot climates where xmas is observed...better just light a BBQ, swim in the pool and get p*ssed... Not sure about other places but in Australia it is commonly known as the silly season. Which is true in many ways with a tree that is a Pagan ritual, santa clause that is modeled on an image from coca cola's advertising, but the retail store owners love it after all isn't xmas a jewish invention to get people spending money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaihome Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Just to throw gasoline on the fire, I work for an American Company (branch office) registered in Thailand. We include Christmas day in the 13 holidays per year ,exclusive of the 10 days per year annual leave, which increases to 15 after 4 years continued employment. NY Eve and NY day is also holiday. If you are supporting a client or contractor that works Christmas (and they all do), then you are expected to work and get holiday pay for it. All of our clients and contractors have NY day as holiday. About a third of our expats (we have about 50 right now) take 2-3 weeks off during the holiday and go back to US or UK for annual home leaves. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feens Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 What is the common practice when it comes to christmas holidays here in Thailand.It is probably common that thai employees gets a holiday for christmas, but how many days are common? 1 week? 2 weeks? And around what days? 24th until the 7th of Jan? The gazetted public holidays around this time of the year are 31 Dec and 1 Jan. In addition this year the government has called a holiday on 2 Jan to promote internal tourism. That said, companies are required to observe 13 Public holidays per year (although more than that are gazetted). Christmas Day is not recognised as a public holiday and those Thais or Expat employees that want the day off need to utilise their annual leave entitlements. While in the West we typically have around 20 days annual leave, in thailand it is significantly less (some employees having only 6 - 10 days though in my company I award all with 15 days) and the taking of this leave is often in conjunction with public holidays. The major holiday is in April (the Thai New Year) when Thais take time off to return to their homes to be with family for the New Year much as we do in the west for Xmas. rgds feens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaihome Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Your question has already been answered...No... its not common for Thai;s working in "Farang owned" companies, incidently, what do you define as farang owned anyway ?, Other than Amity agreement owned companies..ie US owners, all Ltd companies in Thailand are Thai owned anyway on 51/49% ownership You are only thinking of the small businesses. Ignoring the fact 100% foreign owned subsidiaries of multi nationals employ millions of Thais. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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