News Forum - Employment at Thailand’s venues slowly picks up following nightlife reopening

[Thaiger]

Aspiring bartenders can dream again, because now that Thailand’s nightlife is ‘officially’ back on, venues are slowly employing again. The country’s pubs, bars, karaoke bars, massage parlors and other venues are picking up the pieces after having to lay off employees during the Covid-19 pandemic. This news comes after Thailand stopped requiring such venues to call themselves ‘restaurants’ on June 1, instead allowing them to legally reopen. Venues still face a massive hurdle with Thailand’s midnight closing time, though. On top of the stingy close time, venues have also been asked not to hold promotional events in order to avoid […]

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[Pompies]

The government is not nervous about new infections it is nervous about losing the final controls it has over the bodies and minds of the people. It knows it will be decimated in the upcoming election and is looking for ways to cling on as a controller of lives. As for staff re-employment the main problem is not the midnight closing it is the continuing restrictions on the number of people who can enter the premises. This means that numbers can only reach about 40% of the previous capacity and so severely limits revenue generating opportunities. Add to this the early closing, the major additional costs of sanitising, the cost of weekly testing of all staff, rising electricity costs, rising food costs and the possible increase in minimum wage rates and you simply cannot make enough money to start to pay off debts let alone employ more staff. The future is not rosy!