Two university graduates from India holding Employment Passes hint at manpower problems at Changi Airport. Is our work pass system keeping pace with needs?
Coming soon: new law to streamline enforcement of court orders. Long overdue improvement. A salary insurance scheme would be a useful complement too.
The employer said Hulash's overtime was covered by a fixed allowance of unspecified purpose. TWC2 helped Hulash fight all the way to the High Court to win his case.
An employer had not paid his workers' salaries for five months. A few men went to MOM to file claims. In case the remaining men also do so, the employer had a plan: create evidence that salaries had been paid.
Not having paid his workers' salaries for five months, a boss comes up with a ruse to create a paper and video record that salaries had actually been paid, perhaps hoping to stymie any salary complaints at MOM.
Over a hundred men working for three inter-connected companies filed salary complaints. All were owed thousands of dollars; but all had also paid around $10,000 to get their jobs. Do the math: 100 men x $10,000 each.
A case study of how bad MOM policy makes life a living hell for a victim of salary non-payment. He is broke, homeless, with no money for food. There is no social safety net. Deliberately so?
Lots of migrant workers can be found in our F&B sector, but the exploitative working conditions are terrible, despite nice laws.
It first began with the employer cutting out the agent (to the worker's advantage), but it actually was a sign that the employer couldn't be trusted to honour the contract.
Excessive overtime, well above the legal maximum, and still not paid - a worker's tale from one of Singapore's many food courts.
