THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD K. Krisnaveni is not sure when she is going to be paid her salary again, with the last payment coming in February.

Since then, she and her fellow workers in a limousine and tourism services company have been left in the dark on what is due to them.

They also realised that their employer failed to remit payments to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and Socso.

Worse still, the company had also summarily dismissed some of its employees, including Krishnaveni, and warned of similar actions against others.

Their company’s irresponsible behaviour coincided with the start of the movement-control order (MCO) in March, but employees like Krisnaveni feel that should not be a reason for such treatment against the workers.

Krisnaveni had been working in the company since 2018, and She lodged a police report against her boss with five other colleagues on Monday.

“Our last salary was in February. In March, the company only paid us RM400, with the remainder to be paid on April 7.

“But until today, none of us have been paid the remainder, or the salary for the subsequent months.

“When we asked them about the delays, they told us off. In my case, they said my services have been terminated but I received no official confirmation on that from them,” she told The Malaysian Insight.

She added that other employees were also warned that they would be dismissed if they took any action against the company.

“We are confused with this situation. How come the workers are put in such a situation when we are the victims here?

“The employer has acted irresponsibly and I am now out of work… and it is not easy to find a job at this moment,” she said.

Another affected employee, Annadass Michael, 49, said he is also in the dark on his situation.

Annadass, who is a tour vehicle driver and an assistant manager, said he was told to mind his own business when he asked his employer on the salary situation.

“When I asked them about the delays in salaries for my co-workers, my bosses will question me for raising the matter. This is how they treat us.

“The company vehicles are also without proper documentation. Some cars use road-taxes belonging to other cars,” he claimed.

He also said the company was more keen in taking care of its illegal foreign workers than the local workers.

Another employee, Tho Kiet Ling, 27, said he was dismissed as manager without any reasons through an email dated May 4.

He said his last salary was the partial RM400 payment in March.

In the police reports lodged against the company on Monday, the six affected employees said their employer had failed to remit payments to EPF and Socso despite making deductions from their wages.

They also said they were terminated without any official letters after they complained about the issue to the company’s management in January.

On the same day, Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan said the complaints of the affected employees would be investigated. – June 24, 2020.