Section 257
Statutory text (Thai original)
บุริมสิทธิในเงินที่ลูกจ้างมีสิทธิได้รับเพื่อการงานที่ได้ทำให้แก่ลูกหนี้ซึ่งเป็นนายจ้างนั้น ให้ใช้สำหรับค่าจ้าง ค่าล่วงเวลา ค่าทำงานในวันหยุด ค่าล่วงเวลาในวันหยุด ค่าชดเชย ค่าชดเชยพิเศษ และเงินอื่นใดที่ลูกจ้างมีสิทธิได้รับเพื่อการงานที่ได้ทำให้ นับถอยหลังขึ้นไปสี่เดือน แต่รวมกันแล้วต้องไม่เกินหนึ่งแสนบาทต่อลูกจ้างคนหนึ่ง
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
The preferential right on account of money, to which an employee is entitled for services rendered to the debtor who is his employer, is for basic pay, overtime pay, holiday pay, holiday overtime pay, severance pay, special severance pay, and other money to which the employee is entitled for services rendered to, for four months back not exceeding one hundred thousand baht for each employee.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 257 is part of Book 2 (Obligations) of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code. This entry is awaiting firm-authored commentary; the statutory text above is verbatim from the Office of the Council of State (OCS Krisdika) Thai source, with the English translation from the FAO/UN FAOLEX repository. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 5 Supreme Court decisions (1983 to 2007)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6424/2550 (2007)
- Decision 5032-5080/2548 (2005)
- Decision 5032/2548 (2005)
- Decision 2511/2526 (1983)
- Decision 6466/2550 (2007)
This list is selected automatically, weighted towards judgments that turn on this section rather than ones that merely recite it when passing sentence. It has not yet been reviewed by the firm.
Counted across the firm's corpus of 83,652 Supreme Court decisions, 1921 to 2026. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 257 (Thailand) -
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Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 257. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-257/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 257 -
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