Do foreign workers who work on traditional holidays get paid more?

      The Labor Protection Act of 1998 requires employers to announce traditional holidays to employees in advance; in one year there are 13 days, including National Labor Day. And the employer shall consider the traditional holiday from the annual public holidays, religious holidays or local customs and traditions such as New Year's Day, Songkran Day, Asarnha Bucha Day  Birthday, etc. If the traditional holiday coincides with the employee's weekly holiday, typically a Saturday or Sunday, the employee may take a day off for compensation on the next day or Monday; these “substitution days” are marked on most calendars

      In the event that an employee must come to work on a traditional holiday, the law requires employers to pay an additional day for traditional holiday work for both daily and monthly workers. Holidays, according to the labor protection law, are divided into three types: 

1. Traditional holidays;

2. Weekly holidays (usually a weekend), allowing employees to have at least one day off per week.

3. Annual leave entitles employees who have worked consecutively for one year to be able to take annual leave of not less than six working days per year, excluding weekly holidays and traditional holidays.

Source : Dharmniti Law Office Co., Ltd.
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