Sng unhappy with the fee imposed for remitting salaries.
KAPIT: Former Temenggong Sng Chee Eng is fuming that a local bank here charged his company RM10 per transaction for remitting salary to his employees in Belaga Bazaar.
A staff of Sng had gone to the bank yesterday and when he told the bank worker he wanted to remit salary to three workers in Belaga, he was asked to pay a fee of RM30.
Sng told reporters here that the authority should come forward and explain the fee schedules imposed by banks as this concerned many members of the public.
“What is the difference between the banking-in of salary and ordinary transactions? Banks must explain because the fee charged is exorbitantly high.
“Most ordinary workers here merely earned a few hundred ringgit per month, and to deduct RM10 from their salary is simply too much,” said Sng.
He added he had gone to the bank to seek explanation and was told by a bank officer that the fee for salary transaction was RM10 per worker, and the directive was from the `higher authority’.
When The Borneo Post called another bank to enquire, a bank officer said this regulation had been in place all the time. For instance, she explained, if the salaries were meant for 10 workers, than the bank would impose a fee of RM100.