Garnethoyes Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Just wondering, when were work permits officially introduced and required here ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario2008 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 The curent law is from 1978, but was revised in 2008. Not sure if they had work permits before that time, which they probably had. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritTim Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 (edited) The only regulation I know of preceding the 1978 act is the wonderfully named Announcement No. 322 of 1972 of the Revolutionary Party concerning the employment of aliens. The 1978 act replaced this. I have found references to a Occupational and Professional Assistance Act of 1941 that seems to have had provisions on migrant workers. I suspect that, prior to this date, permission to reside in Thailand would have been conditional, with one of the factors being whether you were conducting business, carrying out missionary work and so one. Criteria would have been informal. I could be wrong. Edited May 29, 2015 by BritTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnethoyes Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 The only regulation I know of preceding the 1978 act is the wonderfully named Announcement No. 322 of 1972 of the Revolutionary Party concerning the employment of aliens. The 1978 act replaced this. I have found references to a Occupational and Professional Assistance Act of 1941 that seems to have had provisions on migrant workers. I suspect that, prior to this date, permission to reside in Thailand would have been conditional, with one of the factors being whether you were conducting business, carrying out missionary work and so one. Criteria would have been informal. I could be wrong. Wonderful guys, Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehard71 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 i had a work permit back in 1974.used to be green books then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gopis108 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Wow-WHAT A PLACE.Thailand is so laid back one even needs a permit to do work.????Now I understand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzexpat Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Wow-WHAT A PLACE.Thailand is so laid back one even needs a permit to do work.????Now I understand. Australia is a pretty laid back place ! Suggest you try working in Australia without the required visa/permit ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowfactor10 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 It was introduced after the foreigners arrived here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colabamumbai Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Do you mean Burmese, Laotians, and the Vietnamese foreigners? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 (edited) knew a guy once who had a work permit for life.....said right on it. he had opened the very first dive shop in Pattaya......i met him in the mid ninties and he was sixty plus then.......he had been here since the Vietnam war. Edited May 29, 2015 by NickJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acharn Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 In 1973 I was assigned to the personnel services unit of USARSUPTHAI at Camp Samae San, near Sattahip. We had a guy applying for separation in-country, which was authorized at the time. It was quite interesting. He described the same Catch-22 scenario that many later expats suffered. He had specialized electronics skills that met the legal requirement that he could only be hired if he didn't displace a Thai, but the Immigration wouldn't grant a visa (as a member of the U.S. military he didn't have a visa, probably didn't even have a passport until he started processing his request) until the Labor Department issued a work permit, and the Labor Dept. wouldn't issue the work permit until Immigration issued a visa. I think he eventually got it resolved, but it was my introduction to the Thai bureaucracy. Anyway, we can be sure work permits were required in 1973. I think they were introduced under Field Marshal Phibul Songkhram, presumably during WWII, but don't know how to check that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acharn Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 It was introduced after the foreigners arrived here... Well, we know there were foreigners here in the fifteenth century (C.E.). The large and influential Bunnag clan, known for their public service for centuries, was founded by two Persian brothers then. They were members of a well established community of foreign traders. The first contact with the Portuguese was 1511. I don't know how you could determine if the Kingdom of Ayutthaya required work permits or not. King Rama IV encouraged a lot of Chinese immigration after 1860 in his effort to move from the corvee labor system of taxation to money taxes, because Chinese had the skills needed. That was also about the time more Europeans came to work as advisers to the King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Wow-WHAT A PLACE.Thailand is so laid back one even needs a permit to do work.????Now I understand. Assuming you;re not being facetious (so many posts on TV appear to have to be sarcastic, and yet are not meant to be), what country doesn't require some sort of restrictive permission or documentation for legally employed foreign workers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzexpat Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 As a very young man I worked at the Chulalongkorn hospital. The visas etc were "fixed" by the Thai Embassy in London . I recall no problems /difficulties do not remember having to undertake "border runs" or make 90 day reports I enjoyed that year I spent in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roota Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 It was introduced after the foreigners arrived here... Since foreigners, mainly Chinese, have been coming here for at least several centuries, that's a fairly safe statement. If you're referring to 'farang', well, no. When I got my first work permit in the late '70s, most of them as far as I understood at the time were being issued to Asian nationalities. Very few Europeans were working officially here at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh869 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 knew a guy once who had a work permit for life.....said right on it. he had opened the very first dive shop in Pattaya......i met him in the mid ninties and he was sixty plus then.......he had been here since the Vietnam war. Yes....I know of this person...I think he was an ex G.I. I arrived here the first time in 1970. In 1970 GI's were allowed to be discharged from the service in Thailand if they had a job and could get a work permit. The PR book back then was 20,000 Baht ($1000). I should have went for it.....Ha Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Sadly he passed away in 2009. I imagine he still had that permit for life. Real nice guy as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willyumiii Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Wow-WHAT A PLACE.Thailand is so laid back one even needs a permit to do work.????Now I understand. Didn't know thailand requires work permits?? What planet are you visiting from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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