orchis Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Is April 19 an official day off for employees such as office staff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robitusson Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bino Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Yup. My Gf only gets 1/2 day off............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Noodles Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Why is April 19th a day off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robitusson Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Another election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Seems as if govt. employees aren't the only ones getting a day off. According to the Banglamung Police Department, all bars are closed from 1800 on the 18th of April until midnight on the 19th of April in compliance with election law. Happy Songkran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Noodles Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Jeez i guues that means there is no drink served on the 18th then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markuk Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 we still have monday off, no change for the 19th work as usual as i speak, though wouldnt suprise me if that changes on Tuesday - crafty buggers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom yum goong Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 we've got the 19th off, Senate elections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 The government usually decides off-days for their employees. Most companies follow suite. They did announce that the planned April 17 as last Songkran-day will be replaced by April 19 due to the senatorial elections. (You might find some Thai calendars showing 17th as holiday) And yes, as usual for elections no alcolhol to be served from 18:00 hours to preceeding night til midnight on election day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orchis Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 Thank you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdinasia Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 The fast answer ... MAYBE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 It's my undestanding that elections aren't being held everywhere--only in places where candidates didn't surpass the 20% threshold. So, if you live in an area where there isn't an election, then it might not be a day off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 It's my undestanding that elections aren't being held everywhere--only in places where candidates didn't surpass the 20% threshold. So, if you live in an area where there isn't an election, then it might not be a day off. Nah, it's the SENATE election, all areas. The by-elections for the unfilled seats is later in the month 23rd maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdinasia Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 yeppers this is Senate elections ... all places .... most people are NOT getting the day off though many are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamb Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 In my company, we got the information about 19-Apr being a day off at the same time as being told that 12-Jun and 13-Jun are a day off. The email said that the government had just declared all 3 of them as public holidays. Strangely, 17-Apr wasn't listed as a day off before that so it looks like an extra day for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 This is what our HR department issued: This is to confirm that April 19th, 2006 is a normal working day, not public holiday. The Cabinet approved this day to be public holiday for government sectors in substitution of April 17th, 2006 which announced earlier. This change will not affect us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAsiaHand Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 It's not the election that makes the 19th a holiday (or not). There was a short piece in the Post last week saying that the 19th had now been declared by the cabinet as the official substitution holiday for the third day of Songkron, which otherwise would have been on the 17th. If this makes any sense at all to you, please report to government house and you will be named prime minister. Whether and to what extent the last-minute declaration of a holiday will be observed by anyone is anyone's guess. Whoever above said the right answer was 'maybe' is spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losangels Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 To all the boozers out there, get your booze before 6 PM tomorrow evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonoi Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 (edited) Well it seems my HR department / company knew a long time ago about this...I recieved this on 23rd December 2005: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URGENT - 3 January is no longer a public holiday - April 19 is instead Dear all The Bank of Thailand have recently announced that the public holiday that was originally planned for 3 January has now been replaced by a holiday on 19 April for the Senate Election Day. As our company supports the financial markets, we therefore need follow this arrangement so the 3 January will no longer be a public holiday and this will be replaced by a holiday on 19 April. Please let us know if you have any questions. Kind regards HR Team -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How strange that some organisations are giving differant reasons for April 19th EDIT: You'll also find back in January in the Pinned thread about ThaiVisa 2006 downloadable calendar (edit again it used to be pinned but it seems not anymore) I asked if this day should be changed, but it seemed that most people still got the 3rd off....... Edited April 17, 2006 by moonoi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonoi Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 In my company, we got the information about 19-Apr being a day off at the same time as being told that 12-Jun and 13-Jun are a day off. The email said that the government had just declared all 3 of them as public holidays. Strangely, 17-Apr wasn't listed as a day off before that so it looks like an extra day for us With regards to the 17th April, my company is the same was never designated as a holiday for this year. My gf tells me that the only people that have today off are those that work in part-gov/private owned enterprises such as TOT.........still nothings ever clear here so could be wrong Anyway her dad has the day off while she and her mum has to go to work...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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