Work Rules In A Company

[Zen]

My company has 6 employees.

1) Is it compulsory for me to make a set of "Work Rules" for my employees? I read somewhere that it is compulsory only for companies with more than 10 employees. Or has the law been updated recently?

2) I was thinking of making a summarized "Work Rules" for my employees only with some important details which I would like to include? I found on the website several standard "Work Rules" for companies in Thailand, and they are about 10 pages, covering 8 major topics.

But I would like to keep things simple so was wondering if I can cut short.

For example, under the topic of "Leave", I'll just include details of annual leave, yearly holidays but leave out details on military leave, maternity leave and just put a statement "refer to the minimum set by labour law".

3) Instead of making a separate set of "Summarized Work Rules", can I just put it into the employment contract?

[mallyrd]

Why don't you simply get a copy of the Labour Law, have it translated from Thai to English, and then you can answer all of your own questions! Or better still, being a company already in extistence ask your company lawyers.

[chainarong]

Ask your Thai business partner to check it out.

[MrE]

The more rules, responsibilities, requirements and standards you put in writing for employees to sign as part of their contract, the more protected you will be in case of a dispute or complaint at the Labor Department. We set out pay per hour/day/week, hours, days, break times, sick/maternity leave, family emergencies, vacations, weekend and holiday pay, lateness, absence, behavior, performance, sleeping, pilferage and many other things in our employee contracts so that there is literally nothing about which they can claim "I didn't know...." or "he said....".