webfact Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Five-day holiday in May awaits Prayuth's approvalBy Coconuts BangkokBANGKOK: -- Another extra holiday is on the table for the month of May. The Secretariat of the Cabinet will propose an extra day off in today’s cabinet meeting, which would make for a very happy five-day weekend in the beginning of May. Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2015/01/27/five-day-holiday-may-awaits-prayuths-approval -- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-01-27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thaddeus Posted January 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2015 Spreading happiness by legally letting everyone do sod all. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just1Voice Posted January 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2015 As if they don't have enough holidays to get drunk and kill more people on the roads as it is. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zydeco Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 That would be an unpaid holiday, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy chef 1 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 i thought Yingluck has applied for an vacation and than maybe.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catterwell Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Spreading happiness by legally letting everyone do sod all. I have a patch in my new garden. I plan to sod it all with paspalum grass this weekend. Hopefully my grass will be still green in early May, otherwise I'll have to do sod all again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Good way to spread happiness by the government, great for the people if its a paid holiday, bad for company owners who have to pick up the tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Anthony5 Posted January 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2015 I assume they add so many holidays in an attempt to cool down the untamable growth of the economy. Not? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE1 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 They will only have 2 weeks to recover from Songkran and then another round of mayhem. No wonder there is all this crime about , nobody has got any money , to many holidays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Costas2008 Posted January 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2015 I assume they add so many holidays in an attempt to cool down the untamable growth of the economy. Not? Anthony, you do realise that most of the Thai workers are not entitled to any holidays during the year, except the public holidays? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony5 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I assume they add so many holidays in an attempt to cool down the untamable growth of the economy. Not? Anthony, you do realise that most of the Thai workers are not entitled to any holidays during the year, except the public holidays? No I don't realize that, because all of the Thai workers I know have 2 days a month to take. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Cabinet approves May 4 extra holiday, making five-day weekendBANGKOK: -- The Cabinet Tuesday approved May 4 as an extra holiday, making a five-day weekend from Friday May 1 to Tuesday May 5, Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said.The first of May is the National Labour Day while the fifth of May is the Coronation Day.Kobkarn said the Cabinet expected that the extra holiday and long weekend would help boost tourism in the country by about ten per cent.Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Cabinet-approves-May-4-extra-holiday-making-five-d-30252747.html-- The Nation 2015-01-27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesetat2013 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Cabinet approves May 4 extra holiday, making five-day weekend BANGKOK: -- The Cabinet Tuesday approved May 4 as an extra holiday, making a five-day weekend from Friday May 1 to Tuesday May 5, Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said. The first of May is the National Labour Day while the fifth of May is the Coronation Day. Kobkarn said the Cabinet expected that the extra holiday and long weekend would help boost tourism in the country by about ten per cent. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Cabinet-approves-May-4-extra-holiday-making-five-d-30252747.html -- The Nation 2015-01-27 There you have it! Extra days means extra tourist money spent. Why wouldn't they approve such a thing since tourism is down internationally. They have to make it up from their own people. I just hope they don't ban drinking on this long weekend holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePai Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Cabinet approves May 4 extra holiday, making five-day weekend BANGKOK: -- The Cabinet Tuesday approved May 4 as an extra holiday, making a five-day weekend from Friday May 1 to Tuesday May 5, Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said. The first of May is the National Labour Day while the fifth of May is the Coronation Day. Kobkarn said the Cabinet expected that the extra holiday and long weekend would help boost tourism in the country by about ten per cent. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Cabinet-approves-May-4-extra-holiday-making-five-d-30252747.html -- The Nation 2015-01-27 There you have it! Extra days means extra tourist money spent. Why wouldn't they approve such a thing since tourism is down internationally. They have to make it up from their own people. I just hope they don't ban drinking on this long weekend holiday. Unfortunately you have to earn it before you spend it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonytigerbkk Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I assume they add so many holidays in an attempt to cool down the untamable growth of the economy. Not? Anthony, you do realise that most of the Thai workers are not entitled to any holidays during the year, except the public holidays? No I don't realize that, because all of the Thai workers I know have 2 days a month to take. But most will also work a 6 day week. Thais are not entitled to floating holidays such as the ones that European workers enjoy. As mentioned by Costas, 'Thai workers are not entitled to any holidays during the year, except the public holidays', which means that as everyone is on holiday at the same time and all want to go home the roads to Issarn are jammed. For a 3 or 4 day Songkran holiday a Thai can spend about 50% of the holiday travelling (stuck in traffic). The (extra) holidays that you see in the Thai news are almost entirely for government and bank workers (sometimes for teachers) and make no difference to labourers, shop assistants or factory workers. If an employer does offer these extra holidays, they will take them off the other holiday dates or give them as unpaid leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upena Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 5 day holiday in May right after a week's long insanity in April Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneday Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Just another way to buy votes and get the "people" to love the Bangkok elite and the Junta appointed NLA. It is just unfortunate that the poor rural farmer's and all the other poor people in Thailand won't be able to enjoy it. They must work to put food on the table. However, government workers will be able to enjoy this new holiday very well indeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangmod Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 are the Thais now like the Mexicans going to celebrate 5 di Mayo???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KonKorat Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I arrive in Thailand on the 1st May.i guess my arrival is worthy of a 5 day holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLew Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Great ... the 5 dangerous days off May They trying to get an extended holiday in every month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Just another way to buy votes and get the "people" to love the Bangkok elite and the Junta appointed NLA. It is just unfortunate that the poor rural farmer's and all the other poor people in Thailand won't be able to enjoy it. They must work to put food on the table. However, government workers will be able to enjoy this new holiday very well indeed. Did PT not do the same thing at points during their rule? Edited January 27, 2015 by Bluespunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mango66 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 As if they don't have enough holidays to get drunk and kill more people on the roads as it is. to make thai dubble happy, the health minister already asked for aprovement to stop alcohol sale for this 5 days ! So Thais will be more than happy !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mango66 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I assume they add so many holidays in an attempt to cool down the untamable growth of the economy. Not? Anthony, you do realise that most of the Thai workers are not entitled to any holidays during the year, except the public holidays? my wife work with a big foreign company - 8 wd holidays per year !! how much you have in most countries on globe ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konying Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Spreading happiness by legally letting everyone do sod all. Not that many do much more than sod all on daily basis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovenman Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 At least the powers-that-be didn't wait until the week immediately prior to the "extra holiday" to consider doing this, as would usually happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmicbkktxl Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I assume they add so many holidays in an attempt to cool down the untamable growth of the economy. Not? Anthony, you do realise that most of the Thai workers are not entitled to any holidays during the year, except the public holidays? I don't know anybody who does not have an annual vacation,maybe you are talking about upcountry farmworkers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gudtymchuk Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 More holidays = more vehicles on the highways = more crashes = less vehicles on the highways = safer highways.... Thai logic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time Traveller Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Cabinet approves May 4 extra holiday, making five-day weekend BANGKOK: -- The Cabinet Tuesday approved May 4 as an extra holiday, making a five-day weekend from Friday May 1 to Tuesday May 5, Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said. The first of May is the National Labour Day while the fifth of May is the Coronation Day. Kobkarn said the Cabinet expected that the extra holiday and long weekend would help boost tourism in the country by about ten per cent. So all other industries must suffer so the tourism lobby group is happy? The irony is of all the thais I know that do travel during these extended extra long weekends, about half of them travel internationally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Spreading happiness by legally letting everyone do sod all. We're talking about Thailand, not socialist Europe where doing sod all is a multinational past-time. Most Thais would love to work just 35 hours a week like the Europeans who ... surprise, surprise ... now find their economies collapsing. Most working Thais have long hours and few days off. They don't close hotels, restaurants, convenience stores, malls, etc on holidays. People have to show up to work as usual. Europe, the hub of doing sod all. I don't agree with Maggie about much, but she must be smiling now as things fall apart in Greece and elsewhere. Edited January 27, 2015 by Suradit69 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilymat Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Good way to spread happiness by the government, great for the people if its a paid holiday, bad for company owners who have to pick up the tab. Good for the golf courses who can charge top rates on those days. Just an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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