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How did 5,000 salary claims a year become 1,400 over five years? – TWC2
salary shortfalls, and only 950 errant employers?
To be fair, we should bear in mind that this is in part an
impromptu speech in a parliamentary debate. Perhaps the
minister didn’t have the precise numbers that Pritam Singh was
asking for. That said, it is interesting that the minister had the
“950” and “1,400” numbers at hand, and not the more relevant
numbers asked for.
Employment Claims
Tribunal
Family
Food
featured
Housing
Illness
Job mobility
Actually, the numbers are much larger
Job scam
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Tripartite Alliance for
Kickback
Dispute Management (TADM), the latter which, since April 2017,
Labour court
has been dealing with employment disputes, have so far
published two Employment Standards Reports. One edition was
Labour relations
for 2017 -2018 (link), while the other was for 2019 – 2020 (link).
Laws & regulations
There are more numbers to be found there, though the way they
Lawyers
are presented will make a reader tear his hair out. Different
numbers in different sections refer to different time periods.
Sometimes percentages are mentioned but not the base (or
anchor) numbers. For incomplete years, sometimes the gures
are annualised, sometimes not. And sometimes, not even clear
which way they are.
This is what we can extract from the two published reports:
MC & light duty
MC wages
Media interest
Medical costs
Medical interaction
Medical treatment
MOM processes
Placement agents &
fees
Police processes
Politics and policies
Recruitment
Repatriation agents
Salary & deduction
Society &
socialisation
Survey & statistics
TADM
Tra cking
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