The Dark Shadow Shrine

embrace the darkness; that you may see the light nestled within it......

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Exploitation of Employee in Singapore....

Check out this link HERE on a local case of employee exploitation that's making the rounds recently....undergrad employee kenna slapped by employer and pay low wages of $500 per month for three years, with no bonus and medical benefits (take MC must dock salary!), no annual leave and must work ten hours per day....!!!!!!!!!! and now physically assaulted by boss!

Relate to earlier link here on same issue (click HERE). See the parallel with Rana Building collapse, Foxconn, and the recent SMRT strike due to poor accommodation?

Notice the same pattern of argument:
1) there's actually legislation to protect employees, i.e. labour laws
2) these laws are useless if employee ignorant or unaware of them; or if employee needs job badly, hence exploitation better than no job at all, so dare not complain; or if employee too timid and intimidated into a kind of paralysis or inaction....
3) watchdog bodies like the Worker's Union (NTUC?) and the ILO (International Labour Organisation) exists to ensure labour laws are adhered to
4) the role of the media as watchdog to bring to light acts of injustice to apply pressure on relevant authorities or the guilty party itself to rectify the situation....