Labour Probes Unpaid Salary Of Indonesian Worker
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - A foreign female employee of a restaurant in Gadong was seen crying out aloud at the establishment last Saturday morning for non-payment of salary.

The Indonesian worker said she has not been paid her salary for the past 13 months.

Concerned and sympathetic diners at the restaurant called up the enforcement section of the Labour Department to report the incident.

Labour officials came to investigate the case.

A source told that Bulletin part of the salary of the Indonesian worker had allegedly been deducted for the past 13 months to pay for the loan taken by her ex-husband, a former employee of the restaurant.

However, the two had been divorced since 2001. The woman complained she should not have been made responsible for the loan taken by her ex-husband, who is no longer working there.

"Even if we were not divorced there is no valid reason that I should be responsible for the payments of his loan.

"I was not a guarantor to the loan and furthermore I have been divorced from him for the past three years," she said.

The Labour Department is still investigating the case. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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