Section 582: Termination of open-ended employment: notice requirements
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าคู่สัญญาไม่ได้กำหนดลงไว้ในสัญญาว่าจะจ้างกันนานเท่าไร ท่านว่าฝ่ายใดฝ่ายหนึ่งจะเลิกสัญญาด้วยการบอกกล่าวล่วงหน้าในเมื่อถึงหรือก่อนจะถึงกำหนดจ่ายสินจ้างคราวใดคราวหนึ่ง เพื่อให้เป็นผลเลิกสัญญากันเมื่อถึงกำหนดจ่ายสินจ้างคราวถัดไปข้างหน้าก็อาจทำได้ แต่ไม่จำต้องบอกกล่าวล่วงหน้ากว่าสามเดือนอนึ่ง ในเมื่อบอกกล่าวดังว่านี้ นายจ้างจะจ่ายสินจ้างแก่ลูกจ้างเสียให้ครบจำนวนที่จะต้องจ่ายจนถึงเวลาเลิกสัญญาตามกำหนดที่บอกกล่าวนั้นทีเดียว แล้วปล่อยลูกจ้างจากงานเสียในทันทีก็อาจทำได้
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
If the parties have not fixed the duration of the contract, either party can terminate it by giving notice at or before any time of payment to take effect at the following time of payment. But no more than three-month notice need be given. The employer can, on giving such notice, immediately dispense with the services of the employee by paying him his remuneration up to the expiration of the notice.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 582 is part of Book 3 (Specific Contracts) 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.
Why this matters in practice
For lawyers: Section 582 sets the civil-law baseline; the Labour Protection Act may impose additional or longer notice obligations. For laypersons: if you have no fixed-term contract, the most notice either side needs to give is three months, timed to coincide with a pay date.
Legislative history
Part of the original Civil and Commercial Code codification; no major subsequent amendment.
Supreme Court decisions interpreting this section
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Supreme Court Judgment No. 9778/2544 (2001)
The notice-timing mechanism in Section 582 is mandatory and applies regardless of what internal employment rules provide.
Even though the employer's work rules fixed the monthly pay date at the last day of each month, Section 582 required that notice to terminate be given at or before a payment date to take effect at the next payment date; the specific timing rules applied regardless of the internal rules' wording.
Curated decisions with case numbers verified against the Supreme Court database. English renderings are the firm's editorial translation for study.
Cited in 143 Supreme Court decisions (1959 to 2024)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 4239/2563 (2020)
- Decision 4030/2561 (2018)
- Decision 892/2560 (2017)
- Decision 2289/2550 (2007)
- Decision 6881/2549 (2006)
- Decision 6701/2549 (2006)
- Decision 8570/2548 (2005)
- Decision 6787/2548 (2005)
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.
Most often cited alongside
- Section 583 24
- Section 224 11
- Section 17 7
- Section 575 7
- Thai CPC s. 225 7
- Section 823 4
Sections that appear in the same judgments as this one most often. The figure is the number of decisions.
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 582 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 582. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-582/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
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ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 582 -
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