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OVER 20,000 employees went absconding in the past seven months. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs received close to 10,000 complaints during the same period, half of them pertaining to unpaid salaries and most of the remaining relating to legal entitlements. Is there a link?
It may be presumptuous to jump to conclusions, but nevertheless, the matter is worth pursuing. Why does a worker abscond? It's mostly because he’s not being paid salary on a regular basis or he is being harassed by the sponsor, or both. There’s no reason why a labourer should quit his job or go absconding if his basic needs are taken care of by the company employing him, meaning he his provided proper accommodation and food, besides being paid salary on time.
The ministry has always tried to be fair, and has given a patient hearing to labourers' problems whenever disputes are brought to it's notice. The company's management is summoned and every effort is made to settle the issue amicably. The ministry has introduced several measures which act as deterrent like the classification of companies based on their past performance and record.
The ministry's efforts to protect the labour force deserves to be commended, but perhaps, it can go a bit deeper into the matter, and study the companies from which workers frequently abscond. They may be able to spot a pattern in it, which will go a long way in rectifying the situation. It’s been time and again pointed out that the number of absconding workers is on the increase, which is not a very healthy sign. Only if we go into the root cause of the problem will we be able to come up with a long-term solution.
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