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Under <b>section 5 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act B.E. 2540<\/b>, a term restricting someone&#8217;s freedom to work is enforceable only so far as it is <b>not an unreasonable restriction<\/b>, judged on the activity, the area and the duration.<\/p>\n<p>The practical consequence catches employers out: the court usually <b>trims<\/b> the clause rather than cancelling it, so a three-year nationwide ban gets read down to something much smaller. The fixed penalty written into the contract is no safer, because <b>CCC section 383<\/b> lets the court cut a penalty that is disproportionately high.<\/p>\n<p>\u21aa <a href='https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/non-compete-clause-in-thailand\/'>Is your Thai non-compete clause actually enforceable?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thai non-compete is neither automatically void nor automatically binding. Under section 5 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act B.E. 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