Singapore's Raycom was recently fined by court for measly S$17,500 for defaulting on employees' salaries, in one of the rare case whereby employers exploiting workers on the island state was reported, caught & actually brought to court.
Long known to be dependent on foreign workers & laborers, Singapore has little known reputation of being pro-Singaporean employers. In various little and unreported cases, workers in the country from Malaysia, China amongst other countries were made to work for long hours & comparatively discriminatorily lower pay compared to Singaporeans.
Worse, oft times the Singaporean employers would delay & default on payments and/or made unreasonable deductions off the pay of these foreign workers. In certain cases, the employers are known to hire foreigners without work permits knowingly to make these workers work for few months with little or no pay, and when pressed for pay by the workers, these employers would report these "illegal" workers to the authorities in open collusion to arrest these "illegal workers" who would then be arrested & forcibly deported from Singapore - & hey presto these Singaporean employers hence "save" on these salary expenses for couple of months thanks to the well-known efficient Singaporean authorities. Given the lax & almost non existent importance placed by Singaporean government on foreign workers & their inherent human rights & welfare, the Singaporean government & authorities have traditionally been a knowing & complicit party to these errant defaulting employers who would deploy dirty tactics at every possible juncture to con the hard earned salaries of these workers. Indeed well known stance of Singapore government in providing cover to these errant employers is truly what's cultivating such indecent & inhumane employment practices in the island nation, quite unbeknownst to the outside world since the victims are almost always lowly-paid, comparatively lesser educated foreigners from developing countries.
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