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What a resignation letter actually needs

A resignation letter is not an essay. The shorter and plainer it is, the better it works. Five things have to be in it: the date you wrote it, a sentence stating that you are resigning and from which position, your last working day, one short line of thanks, and your signature with your full name. That is the entire document.

Of those five, the one people leave out most often is also the one that carries legal weight: your last working day. It is the date that settles where your final pay stops, how long your social security contributions run, and — if you are a foreign employee — the day your work permit ceases to be valid. Leave it out and you and your employer are working from different dates from day one.

What you leave out matters just as much. No long explanation, no account of what went wrong, no apology. This letter goes into your personnel file and may be read by people you will never meet, sometimes years later. Write the version you would still be comfortable with if it surfaced at your next job.

How much notice you owe, and why it is not simply 30 days

Almost every guide written for Thailand says you must give 30 days' notice. Section 17 of the Labour Protection Act does not say that. It says notice given on or before a wage-payment date takes effect on the next one. The number 30 appears nowhere in the provision.

The difference is real money. If you are paid at the end of each month, the rule works out to at least about 30 days. If you are paid twice a month, your statutory notice is roughly 15 days. Paid weekly, it is about seven. A great many people stay a month longer than the law asks because they were told a number that is not in the statute.

It also means one day can cost you a month. Paid month-end, notice given on 26 August ends your employment on 30 September. Give the same notice on 1 September — after the 31 August pay date has passed — and your last working day becomes 31 October. Six days apart on the calendar, thirty-one days apart in effect.

Where the details you type actually go

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That means we could not read your letter even if we wanted to. The Word and PDF files are generated on your machine and saved straight to it. Close the tab and all of it is gone at once. There is no account to create, no email address to hand over, and nothing to delete afterwards.