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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Complain to MOM, they bo hew lan!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right>
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<!---->33) No Balls on September 5th, 2009 11.37 pm <!---->
This is my story about how MOM “helped” me.
I was working in this government linked company for more than a year when one day, a colleague complained to the management, claiming that I had committed an “irresponsible act”. The company terminated me without questioning me.
Imagine my anguish, when after returning from my lunch break, I was suddenly asked to report to the office but “pack your things first”. At the HR office, the letter of termination was just simply thrown to me with no further words spoken! Furious that I had been back-stabbed and the manner in which the termination was done, I tried vehemently to reason with them but their final reply was: We have the right to terminate you without reasons!
I approached the MOM for help and they arranged a meeting between my ex-company and me to settle the matter amicably, even though they(MOM) knew that I was compensated according to the Employment Act. Predictably, the meeting ended in a deadlock because the company’s representative went on to invent more accusations against me which I effectively rebutted by exposing the loopholes of his accusations, leaving him dumbfounded. Finally, both sides were asked to file our defence. I submitted mine only 3 days later but my ex-company submitted theirs 2 months later, this time, inventing more “offences” committed by me which were not mentioned at all during the meeting in MOM. More amazingly, they engaged a law firm to represent them, incurring costs of up to thousands of dollars from the company fund! This triggered an exchange of letters that went on for nearly one year and then the MOM stopped contacting me.
I wrote in to MOM several times but they never bothered to reply.
Finally, I approached my then MP, Mr Goh Chee Wee who then wrote to the MOM twice, but both letters were also ignored.
The case appeared to die a natural death, when months later, the then Manpower Minister, Dr Lee Boon Yang visited my constituency. I managed to raise this issue to him during the dialogue session with the residents and was told to “let me know the details”. I did not manage to hand my letter to him personally because his bodyguards stopped me and I could only do so on the following day, through my MP.
This time the MOM finally replied! Relief for me? You bet! In their reply, they turned around and accused me of making a false allegation against my company by saying “our investigations showed that you were contractually terminated and not wrongfully dismissed as alleged by you” an accusation which infuriated me further. Nevertheless they tried to play things down by saying that they “managed to persuade the company to offer you an ex-gratia $800 on a “goodwill” basis but without admitting that the termination was unlawful”. Naturally, I was unhappy and angry at the MOM’s false accusation against me. I requested an amount of $4,000 due to one year’s loss of CPF but if not, the company should at least retract their accusation against me. I did not mind even if they did not pay me anything. But even this was rejected.
Furious with the way MOM handled my case, I wrote in to voice my displeasure. The MOM responded by telling me that the Minister had ruled that the termination was justified and tried to close the case.
Furious at this ruling, I wrote to the Prime Minister’s Office. Predictably, the letter did not reach the intended person. It was redirected to MOM who replied evasively, each time resulting in me exposing the loopholes of their replies. Guess what happened? This exchange went on for a few more months until the MOM stopped replying me!
This was how MOM “helped
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<!---->33) No Balls on September 5th, 2009 11.37 pm <!---->
This is my story about how MOM “helped” me.
I was working in this government linked company for more than a year when one day, a colleague complained to the management, claiming that I had committed an “irresponsible act”. The company terminated me without questioning me.
Imagine my anguish, when after returning from my lunch break, I was suddenly asked to report to the office but “pack your things first”. At the HR office, the letter of termination was just simply thrown to me with no further words spoken! Furious that I had been back-stabbed and the manner in which the termination was done, I tried vehemently to reason with them but their final reply was: We have the right to terminate you without reasons!
I approached the MOM for help and they arranged a meeting between my ex-company and me to settle the matter amicably, even though they(MOM) knew that I was compensated according to the Employment Act. Predictably, the meeting ended in a deadlock because the company’s representative went on to invent more accusations against me which I effectively rebutted by exposing the loopholes of his accusations, leaving him dumbfounded. Finally, both sides were asked to file our defence. I submitted mine only 3 days later but my ex-company submitted theirs 2 months later, this time, inventing more “offences” committed by me which were not mentioned at all during the meeting in MOM. More amazingly, they engaged a law firm to represent them, incurring costs of up to thousands of dollars from the company fund! This triggered an exchange of letters that went on for nearly one year and then the MOM stopped contacting me.
I wrote in to MOM several times but they never bothered to reply.
Finally, I approached my then MP, Mr Goh Chee Wee who then wrote to the MOM twice, but both letters were also ignored.
The case appeared to die a natural death, when months later, the then Manpower Minister, Dr Lee Boon Yang visited my constituency. I managed to raise this issue to him during the dialogue session with the residents and was told to “let me know the details”. I did not manage to hand my letter to him personally because his bodyguards stopped me and I could only do so on the following day, through my MP.
This time the MOM finally replied! Relief for me? You bet! In their reply, they turned around and accused me of making a false allegation against my company by saying “our investigations showed that you were contractually terminated and not wrongfully dismissed as alleged by you” an accusation which infuriated me further. Nevertheless they tried to play things down by saying that they “managed to persuade the company to offer you an ex-gratia $800 on a “goodwill” basis but without admitting that the termination was unlawful”. Naturally, I was unhappy and angry at the MOM’s false accusation against me. I requested an amount of $4,000 due to one year’s loss of CPF but if not, the company should at least retract their accusation against me. I did not mind even if they did not pay me anything. But even this was rejected.
Furious with the way MOM handled my case, I wrote in to voice my displeasure. The MOM responded by telling me that the Minister had ruled that the termination was justified and tried to close the case.
Furious at this ruling, I wrote to the Prime Minister’s Office. Predictably, the letter did not reach the intended person. It was redirected to MOM who replied evasively, each time resulting in me exposing the loopholes of their replies. Guess what happened? This exchange went on for a few more months until the MOM stopped replying me!
This was how MOM “helped
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