When a group of about 100 mostly Bangladeshi migrant workers went on strike at a construction site over unpaid wages this month, it created ripples in this affluent and orderly island republic.
The manpower ministry (MoM) quickly stepped in and ordered the concerned private construction company to pay its striking workers back wages owing since November 2011. The strike was over eight hours after it started on the morning of Feb.6.
"MoM does not condone employers who fail to pay salaries on time, or fail to upkeep and maintain the foreign workers they have brought in," said an official statement.
The strike brought home the fact that a quarter of Singapore’s four million people are low-paid migrant workers from other Asian countries, doing heavy construction jobs that its own affluent citizens will not do. Full story...
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The manpower ministry (MoM) quickly stepped in and ordered the concerned private construction company to pay its striking workers back wages owing since November 2011. The strike was over eight hours after it started on the morning of Feb.6.
"MoM does not condone employers who fail to pay salaries on time, or fail to upkeep and maintain the foreign workers they have brought in," said an official statement.
The strike brought home the fact that a quarter of Singapore’s four million people are low-paid migrant workers from other Asian countries, doing heavy construction jobs that its own affluent citizens will not do. Full story...
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