Work permit
The permission issued by the Department of Employment allowing a named foreign national to do specified work for a named employer at a named place; it is separate from the visa and gives no right to enter or remain.
IN PRACTICE
What it means in practice
The application is judged on the employer as much as on the employee: paid-up registered capital, the number of Thai employees on social security, and the nature of the work itself. As a general rule that means two million baht of capital and four Thai employees for each foreigner, though these figures move with the regulations and with the officer's discretion, and BOI-promoted companies work to a different set of criteria, so check them before planning headcount. The common failure is a change — of position, workplace or scope — made without amending the permit, at which point the work sits outside the permit's own conditions.
THE TERM
The same term elsewhere
- ไทย
- ใบอนุญาตทำงาน
- 简体中文
- 工作许可
- Governing law
- Emergency Decree on Managing the Work of Aliens
ENQUIRIES
