Phuket Employment Office.

Phuket Employment Office at a glance

The Phuket Provincial Employment Office, at 38/27 Rattanakosin 200 Pi Road in Talat Nuea, Mueang Phuket District, is the provincial branch of the Department of Employment under the Ministry of Labour -- the office foreign residents and their employers deal with for work-permit matters, since in Thailand the work permit itself is a Labour Department document, separate from (though linked to) your immigration visa.

For a foreigner taking up employment in Phuket -- whether with a dive operation, a hotel group, a property or management company, or a company of their own -- this office (or the online e-Work Permit system it feeds into) is where the application, renewal and any change-of-employer notification for a work permit is filed. Address and telephone are cross-confirmed from two independent directories; we could not confirm this specific detail from the office's own page, so treat the address as reliable but call ahead to confirm current hours and queue requirements before a visit.

Address: 38/27 Rattanakosin 200 Pi Road, Talat Nuea Subdistrict, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83000
Hours: Standard Thai government-office hours apply -- Monday-Friday, typically 8:30 AM-4:30 PM -- but we could not independently confirm this office's exact current public-facing hours from its own official page, so call ahead before visiting.
Phone: Tel +66 (0)76 219 660 to 661
Getting there: In Phuket Town on Rattanakosin 200 Pi Road, reachable by car, motorbike, songthaew or Grab -- Phuket has no rail transit, so a private vehicle or ride-hail is the practical option from anywhere on the island.

What's handled here

• Work permit applications for foreign employees (new, renewal, amendment)
• Change-of-employer and change-of-work-description notifications
• Labour-market and employment-placement services for Thai jobseekers
• Liaison point for Board of Investment (BOI) and Digital Work Permit processes routed through provincial labour offices

Notable facts

• The work permit is a Ministry of Labour document, separate from your visa/extension-of-stay, which is handled by Immigration -- a common point of confusion for new arrivals.
• Address and phone cross-confirmed from two independent directories, not the office's own official page -- call ahead to confirm current hours before visiting.