50 working hours per week
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Asking for my friend who is from Malaysia and recently received an offer to work in Singapore in the music teaching industry.
His new offer requires him to work 4 weekdays(30hours) and 2 weekends (20hours) per week. He get to rest on every Tuesday.
Is this kind of work arrangement even legal, given the long working hours? And the pay is just average ($2.5k), no OT nor benefits.
Is there any better choice for him in the music teaching industry?
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Here are what netizens think
- Negotiate for a better offer. He’s still covered under part 4 of the employment act as he is drawing under 2.6k.
If not, take the offer elsewhere, the company sounds scummy to me. The working hours arrangement is legal, however, not paying OT isn’t. Also the company must still adhere to the minimum benefits states under the employment act. - You didn’t deduct lunch hours. That’s 44 hour work week quite normal
- Check the MOM website. I think they have guidelines for this. Best thing your friend or you can do 🙂 is to ask for OT pay for the 6 hours of extra work. If you’re desperate and scared that they retract the offer then suck it up.
- Malaysians are usually okay with working longer hours, problem is pay too low, gotta negotiate more.
- He can reject the offer if he doesn’t think it’s fantastic
- Everybody is usually okay with working longer hours, if the pay is right.