Polar742
All the responsibility none of the authority
Go there; be the victim, and the answer to your question will become rhetorical. :banghead:
Bang the head, that's pretty silly. If you do any research you'll see that you are at best an at-will employee in someone else's country.
If you are an individual of any competence, you will do your due diligence prior to hiring onto any company, especially one overseas. If you are so inclined to apply and work under the conditions presently offered, then that's the game. Adding to that, if you visit another country without any rudimentary study of their customs and local ettiquete then you are the problem not them. Even more so if you want to work there and stay long term.
If you go in knowing the playing field and the rules they play by, you shouldn't be surprised about anything. If you get terminated because you had a bad PC or you twist your ankle and are surprised, that's your niavete and not them.
Sorry, the "victim" card doesn't play. I keep tabs on everywhere I can be employed for the day this place folds. I know what contracts are out there, the countries they're in and the general groundrules of each. There are some jobs I can't ever qualify for because I wear glasses. Big thick glasses at that. Do I think it's silly? Yes. Do I care? No, it's their airline and they can run it how they want. Now, if I were to end up at Singapore and move my family to their country, I have a whole set of rules I'd have to comply with. I would go in knowing that my young sons could spit gum on the sidewalk and I'd get tagged with a huge fine, or worse lose my job and have to move. It's part of the game.