For two years, two Burmese F&B workers were paid only about half of what they should have earned. Why did they tolerate it for so long?
Responding to Parliamentary questions, MOM provides quite a few numbers relating the the abuse of the Training Employment Pass.
A group of construction workers with no experience, no training and no skills were hired on S-Passes with salaries over $3,000 a month. This was no accident. When they were not paid, there was no safety net for them.
A restaurant worker worked 12 - 13 hours a day, and every day except for 2 rest days a month. He was not paid overtime pay. TADM said he had no case. We help him build one.
Seven workers recruited by the extended family of a husband-and-wife couple based in Singapore paid $9,000 each to get jobs jere. Big salaries promised, then stopped altogether.
There's a loophole in the law by which a migrant worker with absolutely no training in basic construction skills can become a construction worker. It's a backdoor via the S-Pass.
An employer fails to pay salaries in full or on time, ignores the rule that salaries muct be paid through bank, or that payslips must be issued. When challenged by TADM, the boss presents falsified documents.
A family in Burma fears the army will be knocking on their doors soon. Where can they send their sons to be safe? What does it take to get there?
Every month, without fail, an employer issues his employees a payslip with am exemplary format. All details are clear. But there's one thing missing.
A Bangladeshi welder paid $3,400 to get a shipyard job. No receipts given, he says. Then he had to memorise some lines to say in front of the camera, and to express deep gratitude.
