PHUKET: Touts in the Phuket time-share business are among the first to be targetted in a campaign by the Phuket Labor Office to make sure foreigners have legitimate work permits.
The new year work permit campaign, as reported first in Phuketwan on January 5, resulted in eight people being arrested on Wednesday.
Seven were employees and the eighth was the employer, according to the Director of the Phuket Labor Office, Yaowapa Piboonpon.
Yesterday Labor Office authorities joined Phuket government officials in looking more closely at Bang Tao, where allegations have been made in the past few days about Russian businesses allegedly operating outside the law.
Two people with work permits for Patong but operating in Bang Tao were each fined 5000 baht.
Early last week, Phuket Labor Office officials said, four people were arrested in Karon, south of Patong, where local agitation against Russian businesses began late last year.
According to the Phuket Labor Office, 8096 work permits were issued up to December 12 for foreigners, outside of the Cambodian-Burmese-Laotian work force.
That number rose to 8635 by January 13, according to Phuket Labor Office, with 646 of those for Russians.
The new year work permit campaign, as reported first in Phuketwan on January 5, resulted in eight people being arrested on Wednesday.
Seven were employees and the eighth was the employer, according to the Director of the Phuket Labor Office, Yaowapa Piboonpon.
Yesterday Labor Office authorities joined Phuket government officials in looking more closely at Bang Tao, where allegations have been made in the past few days about Russian businesses allegedly operating outside the law.
Two people with work permits for Patong but operating in Bang Tao were each fined 5000 baht.
Early last week, Phuket Labor Office officials said, four people were arrested in Karon, south of Patong, where local agitation against Russian businesses began late last year.
According to the Phuket Labor Office, 8096 work permits were issued up to December 12 for foreigners, outside of the Cambodian-Burmese-Laotian work force.
That number rose to 8635 by January 13, according to Phuket Labor Office, with 646 of those for Russians.
Is this headline purposely intended to deflect from the roar of silence on your esteemed website regarding the 'crackdown' on not just timeshare touts et al but ALL foreign companies here? Which, if memory serves me correctly, you yourself had a part in kicking that hornet's nest. Every other Thai based website (except for Phuketinsider of course) is headlining this?
Posted by findlay on February 1, 2013 14:49
Editor Comment:
We carried the story a month before everyone else, uncle findlay, as usual. Now you and the others appear to be catching up . . . You want your news tabloid-sized? Go right ahead. This happens every year or so.
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-businesses-expat-shareholders-under-scrutiny-17367/
Feel as surprised as you'd like to be.