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Anecdotal of course but there are stories of foreign workers being promised one thing then receiving something else when they get there. It's difficult to compl
by melbourne_mat 6y ago
Anecdotal of course but there are stories of foreign workers being promised one thing then receiving something else when they get there. It's difficult to complain when you can be sent home for doing so.
This kind of employment arrangement which is very open to exploitation is not unique to Singapore. Where I live there are similar programs for foreign farm workers and the are also stories if exploitation. However the scale of it in Singapore is enormously larger.
- ekianjo 6y ago> Anecdotal of course but there are stories of foreign workers being promised one thing then receiving something else when they get there. It's difficult to complain when you can be sent home for doing so. It's possible but very unlikely to be a problem over the long run with the means of communication nowadays. Everyone (even poor people) have access to mobile phones and can warn their peers/friends/communities if they happen to fall in such a trap.
- melbourne_mat 6y agoHonestly I don't know any issue in the real world that has been solved this way. Just because much of the world has a mobile phone doesn't mean they are getting the right information at the right time.