Employment Law- The Various Things To Be Known

By Author: Steve Mich
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The legal regulations relating to the employment of the staff and the numerous workers are particularly incorporated in the Labour Act and the section of the Civil and the Commercial Code on the contracts relating to the hiring of the services contracts. In addition to these, there are a numerous ministerial regulations which are issued by the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Labour & Social Welfare.

The minimum daily wage which depends on the location and the various types of the employment activities in accordance with the Labour Act which is a major part of the employee law. The Labour regulations prescribe the maximum number of the working hours of the employees at forty-eight hours per week. Where work is deemed to be hazardous, the working hours may not exceed really 42 hours a week or not more than 7 hours a day which is a legal norm. Once the employees have particularly worked for five consecutive hours, they must be given a one-hour rest period which is mandatory. All the employees who have particularly worked continuously for a period of not less than one year are entitled to a minimum of six working ...
... days paid vacation every year in addition to the 13 public holidays traditionally observed in Thailand.

All the employees who are particularly entitled to sick leave with pay for up to thirty working days per year. An employer may require an employee to produce a medical certificate if the sick leave taken is for three consecutive days or more than that. An employee can be probably dismissed for the absence from the work for three days or more without some reasonable explanation.

The female workers may not be really employed to probably perform work which is really strenuous and very dangerous to their health, which is detrimental to their morals and the safety; or between the 12 midnight and 6am, except in the shift work. A female employee who has worked for more than 180 days is entitled to take the maternity leave with pay for 45 days and an additional 45 working days without pay, if necessary. The maternity leave is in addition to the thirty days paid sick leave to which all the employees are probably entitled.

The children under fifteen years of age shall not be legally employed under any circumstances. The children over fifteen but fewer than eighteen years of age may be allowed to work if the official permission is secured from the Labour & Social Welfare Ministry. The children over fifteen but under eighteen should not be made to work between the hours of 10pm and 6am unless they are film or theatre performers or are engaged in similar work or are compelled to work on traditional holidays, weekly holidays or during their annual leave. None under eighteen years is allowed to perform any work prejudicial to their health, morals and the safety.

The employer is particularly required by law to probably provide adequate drinking facilities, the washrooms and the toilets for the employees and must have first aid and medical facilities available on the premises mandatorily. The extent of such facilities depends on the nature of the business and number of the employees working in the company premises. All the above as according to the employment law should be known by every employee in order to realise their rights in the work place.

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