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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the Department of Employment here in Thailand. I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, that is pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Surge in prosecutions for Asian foreign workers in Thailand. Quoting directly: "Although the Immigration Bureau is perceived as the main agency for catching foreigners snatching Thai jobs, the Department of Employment has its own teams of investigators. Their October 2022 - March 2023 report says 685 employment venues were prosecuted and a total of 1,550 people prosecuted, the majority being economic migrants from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos who had entered Thailand without registration. Indians and Vietnamese also figured prominently in the cases."

That said, those aren't the only numbers. We know and I can't go into it and very much very detailed on this video but we know of folks, so-called Farang, Western expats here in Thailand, Western Immigrants if you will in here Thailand who have also been inspected and had problems with respect to, they weren't clients of our firm before the inspection happened. We smoothed out one situation, still working through another situation. 

Long story short, yeah if you are taking away from this video "Oh, they are going after Cambodians and Myanmar migrants only, or Indians, Vietnamese",  no, not the way to look at this. Those folks generally speaking are here in bigger numbers so you will oftentimes from a law enforcement perspective, see more folks getting cited because there's more of them here. There are more Cambodian migrant workers, I would say probably orders of magnitude more than there are foreign Farang workers here in Thailand, so I mean this is what you are dealing with. It is a different demography and it is okay higher arrests but I suspect if you were to break it down per capita, it is very hard to get these numbers so anytime I find any data points regarding Thai Immigration that actually has numbers on it, I snatch that up and sort of zealously look at that information because it is very useful to me, to kind of see the lay of the land of what is going on. 

Long story short, and the thing to take away from this video, it is not just Thai Immigration out there that may be inspecting. In fact we have had office inspections here recently for clients by the Department of Employment quite a bit, especially since the end of the Emergency Decree where they have a lot more latitude to go out and about and sort of do these inspections, they are happening more often. So the thing to take away from this video, understand that it's a possibility; understand that you need to be in compliance even from a work authorization perspective for whatever business undertaking you are doing here in the Kingdom of Thailand.