The Editors
The maidthailand.com editorial team is accountable for the site's claims. We compile and fact-check the legal explainers and guides from primary sources, and the team is named on the work published here.
The editorial team behind maidthailand.com. We compile and fact-check the site's content from primary legal sources, and the team is accountable for the legal explainers and guides published here. For editorial questions and corrections, write to [email protected].
What we do at maidthailand.com
We are the editorial team responsible for this site and accountable for the claims on it. Our job is to read the source material, write the legal explainers and guides in plain language, and check every factual claim against the primary source before it is published. The team is accountable for each legal article so that readers know who stands behind what they are reading.
As the team grows and named contributors join, each will be added to the masthead and credited on the work they own.
How the editorial standard works
The site's authority rests on method, not on a résumé. Three rules govern everything published here.
- Primary-source citation. Every legal or numeric claim carries a citation to the actual source: the Royal Gazette, a section of the Labour Protection Act, a Wage Committee notification, or an ILO or IOM document. If a claim cannot be cited, it is hedged honestly or cut.
- Dated updates. Each substantive page shows when it was published and when it was last reviewed, so a reader can judge how current a figure is. Rates and rules change, and the date tells you the vintage of the claim.
- Stated limits. Where the official Thai-language text has not been verified directly, or where a figure rests on a secondary source, the page says so rather than presenting it as settled fact.
We are not lawyers, and nothing on this site is legal advice. Where a legal article has been checked by qualified counsel or by a named organisation, that review is credited in the byline of the article itself. Where no such review has taken place, the page does not claim one.
Why this site exists
maidthailand.com was built because reliable information about hiring domestic help in Thailand was hard to find in one place and in plain language. The facts existed: in the Royal Gazette, in ILO briefings, in Department of Employment notifications, and in scattered NGO documents. They were not anywhere a normal employer or worker would easily find them.
Closing that gap is the point of the site. The part that matters most is the worker-facing content: workers from Myanmar, Laos, the Philippines and rural Thailand often arrive with far less information than the people hiring them, and they are the readers most exposed to broker scams. The worker hub exists to give those readers straight answers and clear warnings, in their own language, for free.
Disclosures
- maidthailand.com is free for workers and free for employers. The site never asks a worker for money.
- The site is funded through agency-side revenue rather than reader payments.
- Any conflict of interest affecting an agency review or recommendation is disclosed on that page.
Recent work
- Ministerial Regulation No. 15 (B.E. 2567), explained
- Can a Filipino legally work as a maid in Thailand?
- The MOU process for Myanmar, Lao and Cambodian workers
- Thailand domestic helper salary benchmark 2026
- How to hire a maid in Thailand: the 2026 guide
Contact
For editorial questions and corrections, write to [email protected]. Corrections are welcome and are acted on quickly.
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