Back in the day the old phuket gazette used to have an issues and answers section where you could write in and they would make officials answer on the record.
Over and over the labor dept and employment office repeatedly explained how it was not legal, but they have very little way to enforce it, and as a poor country reliant on tourism, they have to be very careful to not scare off tourist money.
I have all those archived somewhere. Many many more examples.
Then you have many cases of YouTubers and tiktokers including the my mate Nate case (he got off on a technicality as they had an amnesty) or the Chinese girl who made noise about nana but was deported for illegal work