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  • Malaysians Getting EP And PR Below Salary Criteria

    Malaysians Getting EP And PR Below Salary Criteria

    I am not sure how long this scene of Malaysians getting special benefits from MOM (to get EP below the salary criteria) has been going on, but it has definitely been around for at least 3 years.

    I know this because my Malaysian ex-colleague in my previous company, has been holding onto her EP (renewed before too) for 3 years despite drawing lesser than the required salary, as stated on MOM’s website.

    When I first got into my previous company, the boss was certainly very confident that he would be able to get me the EP with just paying me $2400. Initially I doubted him, as that was not to my knowledge and it was not openly stated anywhere on MOM’s website about this. However, when the EP came, I checked the application form which my ex-boss has filed to MOM for my work visa, and he did not lie to MOM about the salary that he would pay me monthly. It was indeed reported to MOM as 2,400, and it was approved. It came as a surprise for me, but according to my ex-colleagues, who happen to be mostly Malaysians, it was the same for them.

    I believe that this may not be applicable to other nationalities.. as the Indonesians in the very same company I have mentioned above had to be under S-Pass instead. I even tried checking the self assessment tool just like the user who opened this thread, and my qualifications warrants an EP and S-Pass, whereas an Indonesian with exact same qualifications would only be able to get a S-Pass only.

    Hope that this helps to give a clearer insight… Sorry if I’m reviving an inactive thread, but thought I would just like to share this information. Anyway, peace out.

    https://forum.singaporeexpats.com/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=113024&p=761006#p761006

     

    Source: www.transitioning.org

  • MOM: Unemployment Rate Up For Citizens And PRs

    MOM: Unemployment Rate Up For Citizens And PRs

    While layoffs dipped in the first quarter of this year, the overall unemployment rate continued to edge up, preliminary estimates released on Friday (April 28) by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) showed.

    Pointing to a “mixed” picture, the MOM report also showed that the total number of people in employment shrank.

    Seasonally adjusted, the overall unemployment rate — which covers citizens and permanent residents as well as foreigners living in households here — crept up from 2.2 per cent to 2.3 per cent between the end of the fourth quarter of 2016 and the first quarter.

    The unemployment rate for citizens and permanent residents, however, stayed unchanged over the same period (3.2 per cent), as did the citizen unemployment rate (3.5 per cent). An estimated 74,400 residents were estimated to be jobless at the end of the first quarter.

    Meanwhile, the number of layoffs dipped slightly from 5,440 to 4,800 between the fourth quarter of 2016 and the first quarter, with redundancies continuing its climb in the construction and services sectors.

    The services sector accounted for more than six in 10 redundancies (63 per cent). For the whole of last year, the number of job redundancies stood at 19,170, the highest since the 2009 global financial crisis.

    Total employment, meanwhile, contracted by 8,500, after it grew by 2,300 in the fourth quarter of last year, owing mainly to a dip in the number of work-permit holders in the construction and manufacturing sectors.

    For instance, the number of people employed in construction dipped by 12,900, the third straight quarterly fall.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

     

     

     

     

  • Jobless And Unpaid By Employers, Bangladeshi Workers Faces Daunting Fate

    Jobless And Unpaid By Employers, Bangladeshi Workers Faces Daunting Fate

    At least six Bangladeshi workers may have to go home as soon as next week, if they are not able to find a new employer.

    Their previous employers, HBB Engineering and C-Plus Engineering, owed them between four and eight months’ pay.

    In total, 31 workers from the two companies have been affected.

    While the workers have received a portion of their pay, some have been out of work since January after their work permits were cancelled by their employers.

    Though the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) informed them that they had two weeks to approach any employment agency for help, the workers have not been able to find alternative employment.

    A spokesman for MOM said the six workers will have the remainder of their salaries paid through insurers later when they either find a new employer or when they return home.

    But the workers will be going home to a mountain of debts they’d hoped to pay off with a steady job in Singapore.

    Mr Prodhan Abdur Razzak, 36, was an excavator operator with HBB Engineering. He came to Singapore last May and stopped receiving his salary in July. He said his employer cancelled his work permit in January.

    He has received $1,773 – half of the pay he is owed by the company – but has a $4,700 debt to pay off back home, consisting of a bank loan he took to pay agent fees to travel to Singapore and medical bills incurred by his family.

    The Straits Times reported on March 10 that the companies are being investigated by MOM.

    Mr Razzak, who comes from the Chandpur district in Bangladesh, told The New Paper: “I asked my boss for some money to pay the medical bills, but he always said he had no money.

    “I even cried but, in the end, I had to borrow from a friend to pay the bills.”

    Mr Razzak added that his S Pass expires on March 30.

    His is one of 4,500 salary-related claims involving foreign workers that MOM has received every year for the last three years. MOM said more than 95 per cent of claims are resolved every year.

    Non-profit organisation Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) told TNP it handled 376 salary cases last year and the 2017 figures already look set to surpass this number.

    Mr A.B.M. Rafiqul Islam, the owner of both HBB Engineering and C-Plus Engineering, was not contactable for comment yesterday.

    Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) chairman Yeo Guat Kwang told TNP that, while the centre is able to actively source for employment for the workers through its network of industry associations, the “success rate is generally not high” and called for a “multi-stakeholder, collaborative approach” to the issue.

    “MWC plans to partner the industry associations, as well as the MOM, in exploring and considering additional measures that the stakeholders may take to improve our system to better assist and facilitate migrant workers to secure alternative employment,” said Mr Yeo.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Abused Maids Should Use MOM’s System To Report Abusive Employers

    Abused Maids Should Use MOM’s System To Report Abusive Employers

    The Ministry of Manpower has a “feedback” system which allows an employer to recommend that a worker not be employed here if s/he is undesirable or “bad”. I have always been opposed to this because MOM’s decision to accept such feedback is based on the employer’s story only without any proper investigation.

    I don’t think such a feedback system should exist, whether it is a complaint by an employer or a worker. Claims and complaints need to be investigated properly. But now I have decided to turn the tables and write negative feedback about abusive employers to MOM.

    What triggered this? This afternoon, despite acknowledgement by MOM that an employer (who is an SMU professor with a Phd from MIT) had pressured a domestic worker to kneel on the floor to say sorry for mistakes made, and had to write 500 times “I will follow what grandma tells me to” as punishment, she was still unfairly terminated by the employer and had to return home.

    Another domestic worker was threatened and had a knife pointed in her direction by the employer. Despite filing a complaint at MOM, she was told she had “no case” and had to return home.

    Why should migrant workers have to suffer in silence when such injustice happens? Why should you have to lose your job when your employer points a knife at you, humiliates and tortures you mentally? We need to take action.

    If abusive employers can submit negative feedback about you for no good reason and MOM blacklists you without thorough investigations, it is time to fight back. I don’t like this feedback system. But it looks like we have no choice because too many migrant workers have been unfairly punished by it.

    You can feedback an abusive employer and recommend that s/he be barred from hiring workers to the following email: [email protected]. If you are a domestic worker and need help with this, I’m happy to assist you. HOME Singapore

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    Republished from Jolovan’s FB.

     

    Source: www.theindependent.sg

  • Indonesian Maid Abused My Grandma, Stole Her Money, Then Ran Away To Malaysia

    Indonesian Maid Abused My Grandma, Stole Her Money, Then Ran Away To Malaysia

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    On Monday 2nd of January 2017 around 7.30am, my grandmom was pushed and beaten by her helper who have worked with her since July last year. Not only that, the helper twisted n broke my grandmom’s right ankle while grandmom tried to stop her from leaving th house. My grandmom is currently warded in the hospital due to th injuries and fractured leg. She suffers some bruises from the scuffle too.. All this happen while my aunt was out sending her daughter to school.

    Before she left, she have also stolen my grandmom’s money approx $1.3k (supposingly to bank in that day) and rm300+. She also took my aunt’s Samsung Tab. The helper has left Singapore to Malaysia via Woodlands Custom on that very morning according to th Investigation Officer.

    We have lodged a police report and got legal advice on this matter too. We are just waiting for the Investigation Officer to get back to us on the updates.. Since this is not a Murder or Drug case, Interpol will take sometime to handle this.

    I would like to seek help from everyone here to make this post viral so the helper can be found in no time. For our family, we are totally fine if the helper wants to leave if she really want to but why does she need to beat up and broke my grandmom’s leg. It is just unfair for my grandmom who is already 86years old and less mobility..

    We trusted and treated her just like our own family. My family members will give her extra allowance for her own expenses, additional of her salary. Bought for her lots of things and she got lots of rest thru out her working here. She will also took her nap too as and when my grandmom naps. So we are shocked when this happens.

    We have no idea what triggers her too.. Coz if she wants to fled, she can do it th past mths while she was alone with my grandmom. We believe that she was influenced or taught by someone that crossed path her recently. But no one cares about it now. All we care now is to seek justice for my aged grandmom who is still in a trauma state.

    Her details are as per below –

    Name of Helper : Baiq Sulaemi
    #MAKEITVIRAL #THEFTOFSERVANT #CRIMINALMAID
    #WANTEDMAIDBYTHEAUTHORITY

    Do PM or Whatsapp me if you have any info about it. Thank You All For Your Help..
    Jazakallahu Khayran

    IN SINGAPORE IF EMPLOYER WERE TO ABUSE AND CAUSE HURT TO A DOMESTIC WORKER, TH EMPLOYER WILL BE CHARGED SO WHY CANT THIS HEARTLESS MAID BE CHARGED FOR HER WRONGDOINGS. ESPECIALLY TO AN ELDERLY WOMAN.

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com