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Toshiie Maeda
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AN Indian national who came to work in Malaysia in August 2009 was not only cheated of her salary but her misery also drove her daughter to commit suicide, Makkal Osai reported.
Latha Shanmugam, 37, a widow from Thanjavur in South India, was employed by a local family when she first came to Kuala Lumpur with a promised salary of RM750 a month.
However, the employers purportedly held back her salary for four months, claiming that they had to pay RM5,000 to her employment agency.
The family then chased her out of the house and told her to contact the agency.
Latha later found a job as a restaurant helper, with the same salary, in Taman Maluri.
Her new employer paid her wages for the first month but allegedly refused to give her any salary for the ensuing six months.
In the meantime, her eldest daughter, aged 18 and studying at a college in Chennai, had been pestering her to send Rs10,000 (RM1,500) for her school fees.
Her two other daughters, aged 15 and seven, study in their village schools.
Latha claimed that she later received news from India that her eldest daughter had taken her own life due to shame, as her name had appeared on the college notice board for non-settlement of school fees.
Latha said she worked in the restaurant for eight months before her employer gave her RM2,200 and asked her to leave.
She said a taxi driver helped her to meet a social worker, who is making arrangements to send her back to India.
