Research on the Spheres of Thai Labor Law and the Correlation between Them.

目前，泰国劳动法包括以下领域。(1)民法和商法。(2)劳动保护法。(3)劳动关系法。(4)劳动诉讼法。(5)劳动培训法。(6)外国劳工法。关于第（2）项，1998年制定了新的法律。该法案旨在改变命令式的劳动管理方式，使劳动管理水平与国际劳工标准接轨。关于（3），2000年颁布了新的《国营企业劳动关系法》。通过这一法律，1991年政变时颁布的最后一项法律得到了推荐，并恢复了国有企业雇员的合并权，尽管立法取得了进展，但这些法律存在两个问题。(1)集体劳动法并没有规定成立工会的权利和就劳动条件进行集体谈判的权利。究其原因，主要是工会化程度低，公私分离。这种法律状况的背景是对工会的政治偏见。(2)新的劳动保护法中包含了性骚扰条款，但在1997年经济危机后，该部命令对该法进行了修改。我认为要改变这套法律制度，使其整体发展，是需要很长时间的。1997年《宪法》颁布后，其最高法律性质得到了人民的广泛认可，《宪法》明确保障男女平等权利。这些基本的法律的原则将成为泰国劳动法制度的坚实基础。

At the present time, Thai Labor Law consist of following spheres. (1) Civil and Commercial Law. (2) Labor Protection Law. (3) Labor Relations Law. (4) Labor Procedure Law. (5) Labor Training Law. (6) Foreign Labor Law. Relating to (2), new Act was legislated in 1998. This Act aimed to change the style from Command to Act and suit the level to international labor standard. Relating to (3), in 2000 new State Enterprises Labor Relations Act was enacted. Through this Act, last Act which was enacted on occasion of a coup in 1991 was recommended and recovered the right to consolidate of employee in state enterprises.In spite of the progress of the legislation, there are two problems in these acts. (1) Collective labor law has not the base of the right to make labor union and to collective bargain relating to working conditions. The reason of it is low ratio of unionization and the separation of the private union and the public one. The background of this situation of law is the political bias against unions. (2) The new Labor Protection Act include a sexual-harassment clause in it. But, after the economic crisis of 1997, the Act was amended by orders of ministry. This means that administrative power predominates over legislative power.I think that it will take a lot of time to change this law system for development as a whole. After the legislation of the Constitution of 1997, the character of it as the supreme act is broadly accepted by the people and the right of sexual equality is explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution. These fundamental legal principles will be the firm foundation for the labor law system in Thailand.