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issue 2 66
17 January 2014
Puzzles
Weird News
Classifieds
Bostin Tommy
laboured
work permits: have you got one, do
you need one?
hua hin, THAILAND
There is an increasing number of business ventures being undertaken by
non-Thais in Hua Hin and in Thailand generally, and correspondingly more
and more foreigners requiring work permits. There are also increasing
numbers who have skilled jobs working for companies that obtain these
vital documents for them, and they should be thankful as the process and
paperwork required is long and hefty.
Consequently there are often some who either don’t know they require a
permit, or a few who take a chance of not being caught. That risk is too high
for most, as it can lead to large fines and deportation in the worst cases,
but there are still regular visits made by police to businesses where they
think they might catch someone out, and this week it appears as though
another round of these visits has started.
Sometimes the police will have had a tip off, other times it will be a visit
to a place where a permit was previously held, and even for those who
have all their paperwork in order there can be an intimidatory air about
proceedings, similar to that when other checks are made such as on music
licences in bars.
The puzzling thing for many foreigners running businesses here is that
no matter how hard they try to abide by the rules, and how many local
people get gainful employment from their efforts, they feel as if they are
being picked on because they are ‘farang’; however Thai run businesses
also get these visits, under suspicion of perhaps employing someone from
Myanmar without the required paperwork.
However tempting it may be to try and ‘beat the system’ ultimately it
behoves all of us to abide by the rules, and when the Asian Economic Union
is formed in 2015 there will be even greater scruting on those working
inside it who come from countries outside of it.
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