17/03/2021
How did 5,000 salary claims a year become 1,400 over five years? – TWC2
Mr Pritam Singh asked for the details of the
number of migrant workers who were
underpaid, and details of restitution made.
Between 2015 and 2019, 950 errant employers
were caught for not paying the foreign
employees their contractual xed monthly
salary or in ating the salaries with no intention
of paying them the amount that has been
declared. There were about 1,400 foreign
employees affected in these cases.
(emphasis added by TWC2)
Do the second and third sentences truly respond to the question
by Pritam Singh?
To know what the question was, watch this 3-minute video from
Channel NewsAsia at this link. The key part of Pritam Singh’s
speech was:
97 percent of
employers of
dorm-based
workers now pay
through bank
4 March 2021
Dengue fever leads
to whim and spite,
all blessed by
government policy
2 March 2021
Straits Times’
Migrant Burden:
background and
commentary
28 February 2021
“MOM help me,”
says Yasser,
declining TWC2
The Ministry of Manpower, arising from
assistance
27 February 2021
parliamentary questions led by Workers Party
MP Mr Faisal Manap and PSP NCMP Leong
Mun Wai, recently con rmed that about 190
employers were found underpaying their foreign
employees every year between 2015 and 2019.
That total corresponds to close to one
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thousand employers over a ve-year period. The
total number of foreign workers who were
Accident reporting
underpaid was not disclosed, nor were any
Advocacy
details of restitution made to these workers
disclosed as well. Can the minister make these
Con nement
details known?
Contract problems
Criminal charges
In the light of these words, look again at Tan See Leng’s
response. Plenty of questions rain down.
Domestic work
Donations
What does “caught” mean?
How many of those “caught” were (a) prosecuted in
court? (b) penalised through administrative measures?
Is the minister suggesting that over the ve years 2015 –
2019, there were only 1,400 foreign workers who suffered
Economics of
migration
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