The changes to Thailand’s foreign worker law that came into effect over the last few years have significantly liberalized the prior restrictions.

However, some legal commentators have taken this good news a bit too far.

NO, foreign directors of investment promoted companies or of companies that qualify to operate under the Thai-American Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations, are NOT now free to work without a work permit, as we explain in our latest legal column, “Misunderstandings regarding the new foreign worker law“, in The Phuket News.