Four of Tilleke & Gibbins’ labor and employment specialists in Bangkok have contributed the Thailand chapter to the newly issued Labor and Employment Disputes 2024, a comprehensive guide from Lexology Panoramic to labor and employment dispute resolution in various jurisdictions around the world. The Thailand chapter covers the following topics:

• Pre-action considerations: Key requirements, third-party funding, contingency fee arrangements
• Issuing a claim: Forum, territorial jurisdiction, standing, commencing claims, fees, service
• Defendants and legal personality: Types of claims, time limits, counterclaims
• Case management: Procedure, rules, amendments to claims, adding parties to proceedings, consolidating proceedings
• Class and collective actions: Special considerations
• Evidence: Witnesses, tactical considerations
• Interim relief: Availability, requirements
• Trial: Hearings conduct and typical time frames, confidentiality and public access, media reporting
• Elements of successful claims and burden of proof
• Alternative dispute resolution: Available types, requirements and expectations
• Enforcement: Collective employment and labor rights, enforcement of collective rights, standing
• Remedies and enforcement: Available remedies, assessing compensation, enforcement mechanisms
• Appeals: Appeal procedure and time frames, other means of challenge
• Update and trends: Recent cases and developments, technology developments, other issues

The Thailand chapter was authored by Eric M. Meyer, Chusert Supasitthumrong, Pathanin Sornchangwat, and Chayathorn Kruatao, all in the Thailand dispute resolution and litigation team. Tilleke & Gibbins also contributed the Vietnam chapter to Labor and Employment Disputes 2024.

The full Thailand chapter is available below as a PDF.