Phuket Work Permit Renewals

Be warned folks, the Phuket Labour Office seem to have changed their requirements for Work Permit renewals, again.

In my case the company employing me operates a restaurant and my renewal will now, apparently, only be stamped until my companies food hygiene certificate expires. I'll get 3 months. This is madness because the food hygiene certificate currently takes months to renew and when it is finally issued it's back dated to the initial date of the application. So any work permit issued in this way will only ever be valid for the remaining 9 months of the year.

Anyone else having trouble?

I'd recommend everyone to be very pro-active in preparing your renewals this year.