Type of issue: salary & deduction
21
03, 2021
Losing the TADM plot
Our volunteer recounts a salary case wherein we felt the TADM mediator to be delivering poor customer service and exceeding his powers.
16
03, 2021
Azom trusted his boss, only to have that trust abused
As soon as the lockdown was lifted, Azom's employer reverted from electronic payment of salary to cash. What was the motive?
12
03, 2021
Employers claw back cost of stay-home period from arriving workers
MOM says employers must bear the full cost of newly-arriving workers' quarantine stay. Without victim protection, our policy-makers are whistling in the wind.
11
03, 2021
Scaffolder’s story surfaces many issues: overtime, injury, salary and kickbacks
Filing an injury claim sometimes precipitates a salary problem as well. Arzu's case shows why. He also tells us about the supervisor and employer taking kickbacks.
8
03, 2021
How did 5,000 salary claims a year become 1,400 over five years?
In 2018 and 2019, over 60% of all salary claims were filed by foreign employees. Even digging these basic figures out involved sleuthing. Many things still opaque.
4
03, 2021
97 percent of employers of dorm-based workers now pay through bank
This represents good improvement, but to be meaningful, more needs to be disclosed as to how this figure was arrived at and what monitoring system is in place.
27
02, 2021
“MOM help me,” says Yasser, declining TWC2 assistance
Some workers feel confident that they can handle their salary claims on their own, declining help and advice from us. We respect their decision.
19
02, 2021
Wanna-be driver hits potholes on way to transfer job
Kawsar is an intelligent guy prepared to make sacrifices to get ahead. He still ends up stymied by bureaucracy as he tries for a transfer job.
28
01, 2021
Another worker with exploitative salary structure in IPA ‘approved’ by MOM
An example of an employer trying to benefit from lower levy while slashing the wages of an employee to a ridiculous pittance.
17
01, 2021
For five years, Alomgir’s employer ignored the law
There's an open secret in Singapore: many employers flout the law on correct calculation of salary with little fear of being taken to task.