OK nothing can be worst then this...
I used to worked in this company call Gateway Pacific
Systems....the guy call Philip goes around telling his client that
they are subsidary of gateway etc....
Whats worst?!?!! The company owes the employee salary at the
time I was with them...not only one employee...but 3-4 of them!! So
I quit...but not till they owe me like 3K salary...1 1/2 months
later....sigh...so dumb and silly of me...
Went to MOM but they say cos my salary higher then 1.6k they dun
help me with court case...end up I gotta get my own lawyer to deal
with them...won the case 5-6 years ago and till now never get any
money back....
I can empathise with you on your predicament. A worker works at
his own expense for 30 days under the contractual terms of
being assured of full pay by then.
There are bills to pay, stomachs to feed, and in the case of
women, cosmetics, dresses internal and external, etc. All such
costs are borned by the workers.
And when the employer screws around with pay, the worker is
stuck with a liquidity problem. Worse if it gets dragged on for
weeks.
THIS MUST STOP!!
Currently we can take legal action, some did, but the costs
sometimes are more than what the salaries owed. There is MOM, but
there is something that is seriously wrong with MOM if it only
intends to help those whom are of lower salaries.
Commendable as it once was and still is, but the rationale needs
to be updated and upgraded. Majority of us citizens, now in the era
of cheap foreign labour, had been elevated to mid management
levels. Only few citizens and mostly foreigners are below the
1700/mth cap.
If the MOM, a singapore born and bred institution,
continues with its policy, then it may well be serving
foriegn interests and not our fellow citizens interests. We do not
need unions, for unions mostly serve low wage earners, but MOM is
still a power employers need to contend with if they hope to do
honest biz here.
We had seen how little or no regulation/interference in private
enterprise had destroyed the financial wealth of the world and
entrap us all into looming poverty, thus no more must we allow it
to happen again. MOM must be given the power to stand up to
employers.
Another aspect is the CPF owed by employers. Even if they dont
pay salaries, CPF is unlikely to let them go on the CPF owed. No
one screws around with CPF. On this, workers can be assured of CPF
Board's teeth.
And thus, the last option is this site and thread. The TS, as
mentioned, has no intention to penalise any employer or employee.
No employer is perfect and no employee seeks for the skies.
If any worker is abused, and has the evidence to back it up,
this may be an outlet. No that it may resolved his problem, but it
will help others to shunned his ex-company, shame it to either
better performance or die a natural death. Such company must not be
allowed to exists if it intends to make use of our intelligent
workforce, take advantage of them, for their own selfish aims
or lack of leadership in management.
