MOE or MOM???
I am writing this entry due to a request from a friend (you know who you are, ok). Recently, I am very pissed off with my life due to some unreasonable & uncontrollable happenings. Dont want to talk about it, in fact, I dont even want to think about it. Anyway, below is a account of what happened to one of my ex-colleague recently.
She has been working as a clerk with this company for the past 3 years. Recently, she decided to resign and at the same time, she found another job to move on. As you may or may not know, all private corporate company practise a one-month notice period for resignation. And usually, there is a hidden regulation that you clear all your outstanding annual leaves on your last month of work.
Example:
You submit letter of resignation on the 01 Oct.
One-month notice means your last day of work is 31 Oct.
You have 7 days of annual leaves not yet taken.
Thus, 31 Oct minus 7 working days, equals 22 Oct.
Meaning, your last day of work is 22 oct.
Thus, my this ex-colleague did the same. However, due to her last month at work, her production level & morale went extremely low. At the same time, pissing off other colleagues in the company. Thus, her boss told her that if you are unable to complete all necessary work by 22 Oct, the company reserves the right to disapprove your leave and you have to work till 31 Oct. The 7 days of annual leaves will be encashed instead. (sounds peaceful & reasonable????)
NO! NO! NO!
This ex-colleague blew up a big fuss about it. Told everyone that she knows that the company is not letting her off for a better career path. And she even sms me to ask whether she can sue the company with MOE!!! (waahaahaaa...i think she meant MOM lah, must be too hot-headed when keying the sms to me)
OMG!!! can someone tell me whats the world is coming to??? i really dont know who is right and who is wrong in this case. My ex-colleague or the boss of the company??? (Personally, I am on very good terms with the boss too. She is definitely not a mean person that wanna spolit someone's future)
By the way, in such cases, can employee sue the employer under Labour law in Singapore???
Anyone that can enlighten me???
(P.S : the only thing that does not piss me off this week, is actually Harry Potter, Gorblet of Fire Movie, it is indeed an enjoyable movie, although the cinema is filled with one million kids running around....)
She has been working as a clerk with this company for the past 3 years. Recently, she decided to resign and at the same time, she found another job to move on. As you may or may not know, all private corporate company practise a one-month notice period for resignation. And usually, there is a hidden regulation that you clear all your outstanding annual leaves on your last month of work.
Example:
You submit letter of resignation on the 01 Oct.
One-month notice means your last day of work is 31 Oct.
You have 7 days of annual leaves not yet taken.
Thus, 31 Oct minus 7 working days, equals 22 Oct.
Meaning, your last day of work is 22 oct.
Thus, my this ex-colleague did the same. However, due to her last month at work, her production level & morale went extremely low. At the same time, pissing off other colleagues in the company. Thus, her boss told her that if you are unable to complete all necessary work by 22 Oct, the company reserves the right to disapprove your leave and you have to work till 31 Oct. The 7 days of annual leaves will be encashed instead. (sounds peaceful & reasonable????)
NO! NO! NO!
This ex-colleague blew up a big fuss about it. Told everyone that she knows that the company is not letting her off for a better career path. And she even sms me to ask whether she can sue the company with MOE!!! (waahaahaaa...i think she meant MOM lah, must be too hot-headed when keying the sms to me)
OMG!!! can someone tell me whats the world is coming to??? i really dont know who is right and who is wrong in this case. My ex-colleague or the boss of the company??? (Personally, I am on very good terms with the boss too. She is definitely not a mean person that wanna spolit someone's future)
By the way, in such cases, can employee sue the employer under Labour law in Singapore???
Anyone that can enlighten me???
(P.S : the only thing that does not piss me off this week, is actually Harry Potter, Gorblet of Fire Movie, it is indeed an enjoyable movie, although the cinema is filled with one million kids running around....)
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4 Comments:
At Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:23:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
wahaha... definately not a mistype case, cos when your ex-colleague speak to the boss, she also use the term MOE...
to enlighten u, there's a term called "subject to management discretion".. since its staff is deemed to apply for leave, then the boss definately have the rights to disapprove the leave if the staff has work to be completed.
p.s your ex-colleague not only piss off other colleagues, she also pissed the big big boss!!
~ lian
At Friday, November 18, 2005 3:20:00 PM,
Old Beng said…
The company has the right in deciding whether or not your friend can off-set her 7 days leaves. If the company wants her to work the 7 days and pays her instead, she has no choice except to work.
BTW assuming the company grants her to off-set the 7 days leaves, remember she cannot join her new company during the 7 days.
Hope the above info helps.
At Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:07:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
To continue to the story, do u know what your ex-colleague does? on her last day, she said she completed her stuff... and guess what? she left some "old work" undone... leaving it on top of the CPU which is under the TABLE and put some "work" in between a stack of docs that was already checked...
well.. i really dunno how much "unclear work" she is hiding.. maybe, shld start flipping up the carpet and checked.. ~ lian
At Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:10:00 PM,
孺子牛 said…
So long as the company is willing to pay off the leave balance, the company has the right to request her to stay.
On the submission of resignation notice, she can actually pay off the one month in lieu and leave immediately, why she wants to serve the notice if she knows the company won't let her off easily?
On the other hand, if one will to leave the company, leave it professionally by doing the best during the notice period unless one doesn't want to go back to the same industry.
My previous company has the policy that everyone has to serve two months notice and no leave offsetting. After I left the company, they still called me to solve some issues. However, I charged them on an hourly basis.
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