Hello all. This is quite a specialized question.

I'm a Swedish citizen, 38 years old, currently residing in Sweden. I work in aviation and have been looking for adventures abroad, in that field. I'm looking for work mainly in ground handling management, as I have a great track record doing just that. Now, I looked at Emirates career site and found several interesting offers. None at BKK at the moment though. I found the following interesting:

"[You] Must have the right to work and live in [Thailand]. The company will not provide or assist with obtaining work permits."

Let's say Emirates (based in Dubai) have the perfect job for me, to be stationed in Thailand. How would I go about that? Would I need a work permit? How do I obtain it if Emirates do not assist in these matters? Or does it simply mean "you have to be a thai national to be able to get this job"?

Any help appreciated.

Best/Tommy

Edited January 1, 201016 yr by stormstereo

Tommy

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"you have to be a thai national to be able to get this job"

I am afraid this is the point. If your company won't help you to get a work permit in Thailand, you can't work in Thailand.

"[You] Must have the right to work and live in [Thailand]. The company will not provide or assist with obtaining work permits." As I see it, you must already have the right to work and live in Thailand to get this job. As a farang you don't have any (of these) rights here

Edited January 1, 201016 yr by Brunus

Probably means Thai wages as well !

A work permit is required for all work in Thailand. As the employer is not prepared to provide this, the job seems to be open to Thai's only (plus maybe foreigners holding permanent residency).

Okay everyone, thanks for the input. It was worst case scenario then.

MNCs have anti-discrimination policies that prevent them from ever saying anything like... this job is only open to a Thai National... but the statement they listed above is compliant with their anti-discrimination policies as it makes no mention of race... it is simply saying that they can not provide any support in getting a work permit.

While it may result in the same thing for now... the way this reads is that if the Thai government ever changed it policies on who requires a WP(if for example, they ever allowed those with PR to work without a WP), then a foreign national could qualify for the job.