V.Wijeysingha: Govt silent over the breaking of its own laws

[Confuseous]

Anyone knows the name of the MP he is referring to?

Let’s say you are an employer. And you have a migrant worker who has injured himself and cannot work for a time. Or you have not paid him for months on end. Or have made illegal deductions from his salary. Or have worked him for far more than the legal 72 hours overtime per month. Or have only paid him when there is work, contrary to the Employment Act that mandates that a worker must be paid if he is available for work.

Let’s say your worker indicates that he intends to take a complaint to the Ministry of Manpower (whose website, by the way, states its values as being “People Centredness, Professionalism, Teamwork and Passion for Progress”). Let’s say you cannot afford to be, well, ‘people centred’, because people cost money, you decide that your migrant worker is best dealt with by way of getting him out of your hair, which in fact means expelling him from Singapore, so he can no longer take the protection of the nation’s employment law.

...what they do, is to seize the worker, force him into a vehicle that will take him to the entity’s premises, and keep him under lock and key until they spirit him away to the airport and on a plane and safely out of Singapore’s jurisdiction. The website of that particular entity names this “temporary custodial lodging.”

- http://www.publichouse.sg/categorie...govt-silent-over-the-breaking-of-its-own-laws

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Too be honest, I dont give a crap about Foreign Workers, right now even Singaporeans have problems,, look at the NS people who were injured etc, what has SAF done for them??? Perhaps, more effort should be used on Singaporeans who are discriminated against by employers and the PAP than worrying about foreigners, if foreigners dont like it in spore, they can always leave..no one stopping them

 

[Forvendet]

I'm not against foreign workers. They supplement our work force and add a colorful diversity to our cosmopolitan outlook. However, I think that one-third or even one-fourth is too much when supplement and diversity become invasive and instability. As the government count PRs as local workers, but PRs are still foreign citizens, the real proportion should be closer to half by now. I think that a balanced proportion should be one-fifth.

 

[Cruxx]

Xenophobia would only further the cause of the PAPpies.