Thread: Fulfilling contract and severance pay

Originally Posted by contender

after fulfilling a contract, do 'expats' qualify for the severance pay under the Thai Labor protection act ?
i've read that after 3 yrs, i'm entitled to 180days of severance from the uni. can anyone give feedback on this?

Thanks in advance.

Let me throw in my ha'pennoth if Pinky isn't going to bite.
If you have fulfilled your contract and it's expired (through effluxion of time) being a short-term contract why would severance even arise? The contract won't have been broken (severed) so there would be no severance pay. There may be a contractual bonus payable to you on contract completion, but that's a separate matter. Check your contract, it'll be in there if you're entitled to one.
If you have been fired or made redundant by the university then there may, indeed, be severance pay to collect as your employer will have severed the contract by doing so. But in this case, you won't have
fulfilled your contract - your employer prevented you from fulfilling it.
If you have resigned from your position with notice, or walked out without notice, it is you who severed the contract. In this event, you would not be entitled to receive severance pay.
If both the university and you agreed that you should leave, then there would be no severance and so no severance pay.

That's my reading of it, anyway, for what it's worth.[/i]