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Just recently, the Minister for Manpower was laying down his “zero tolerance” stance on workers who go on strike, during the SMRT drivers’ saga.
No one in SMRT has been hauled up and punished for all the failures which led to the strike. And employers who refuse to pay up – salaries, compensation, court-ordered payments, etc – seem to get away with it too.
Besides Uzzal’s case, mentioned in Alex’s report, the case of Nepalese Rana Kumar too leaves one wondering whose side it is that MOM is on when clear violations of the law by employers take place.
For example, why – in Uzzal’s case – is the MOM officer more interested in interviewing Uzzal than in enforcing the law and getting the employer to pay up, as the court had ordered? Why harass a poor helpless worker who’s had to put up with two years of uncertainty as he goes through MOM’s much-touted “proper channels” to resolve his dispute?
If what Alex reported is true, the MOM officer should be taken to task and see if he or she has broken any law. Surely, there must be some guidelines or even regulations against such officers interrogating innocent workers for hours on ends.
- http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/the-authorities-harassing-workers/
No one in SMRT has been hauled up and punished for all the failures which led to the strike. And employers who refuse to pay up – salaries, compensation, court-ordered payments, etc – seem to get away with it too.
Besides Uzzal’s case, mentioned in Alex’s report, the case of Nepalese Rana Kumar too leaves one wondering whose side it is that MOM is on when clear violations of the law by employers take place.
For example, why – in Uzzal’s case – is the MOM officer more interested in interviewing Uzzal than in enforcing the law and getting the employer to pay up, as the court had ordered? Why harass a poor helpless worker who’s had to put up with two years of uncertainty as he goes through MOM’s much-touted “proper channels” to resolve his dispute?
If what Alex reported is true, the MOM officer should be taken to task and see if he or she has broken any law. Surely, there must be some guidelines or even regulations against such officers interrogating innocent workers for hours on ends.
- http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/the-authorities-harassing-workers/
