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BTW I have to take this opportunity to commend this "Alan" character for having the ingenuity to work the system to his advantage brilliantly. We used interns too but they were short term stints of a couple of months at most. I did not realise that it could be extended for years at the rate of $500 a month or I would have done the same myself when I was an employer in Singapore.
In exploiting this loophole, he has been able to keep his manpower overheads very low with obvious benefits to the bottom line.
I don't condone his physical abuse which has pretty much destroyed his current enterprise. However, as an entrepreneur, he's a notch above the rest. He got away with paying 3rd world labour rates without having to move his operations to a 3rd world.
this is precisely why singapore should not be governed as a business first. unethical business owners are celebrated as heros, while exploited workers are mocked.
you are the sort to celebrate the business accumen of Bangladeshi garment factory owners in operating out of cheaper, unauthorized premises.