Reduced Penalties for no Work Permit

[scoutman360]

I just read in the Nation a few weeks ago that there is a bill on the table to reduce penalties for working without a Work Permit. I am not advocating this, but curious about it. Current penalties are quit severe. It seems that the bill was introduced to reduce political corruption in taking bribes to avoid the penalties.

[overherebc]

Only applies to immigrant workers from neighbouring countries. English teachers without a WP, if caught, will still get banged up and deported.

[PoorSucker]

Only for illegal workers from neighbour countries, Malaysia Excempt. 

 

 

 

 

 

[elviajero]

3 hours ago, overherebc said:

English teachers without a WP, if caught, will still get banged up and deported.

Even if caught they are rarely “banged up” or “deported”. Usually they are fined and, at worst, made to leave the country.

[pearciderman]

6 hours ago, elviajero said:

Even if caught they are rarely “banged up” or “deported”. Usually they are fined and, at worst, made to leave the country.

 

"the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state." is the definition of deportation, so "made to leave the country" is deportation.

[ubonjoe]

Not sure it is only for migrant workers. They raised the fines in the working alien act that covers everybody.

I don't recall imprisonment and other penalties being changed when they did it.

[elviajero]

6 hours ago, pearciderman said:

 

"the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state." is the definition of deportation, so "made to leave the country" is deportation.

In cases like this they are not formally ‘deported’. There is no record, in their passport or the immigration database, of ‘deportation’.

 

Usually the offender agrees to pay a fine and, if required, agrees to leave the country within an agreed deadline.