for me i dont think that the company will drag you to court for merely rm2k , legal fees are costly, even if they want you to pay , in the end of the day still the company who sue u , who make you to court, need to pay for everything first

if u cant pay , in the end , the company still loses money.

like us too, if the company do something terrible to the worker (no salaries, no epf bla bla), will drag them to labour court or justice court or something.

if the company goes bankrupt, in the end , the worker who sue their own company, still need to pay to lawyer bla bla

still the question is, does the other party can pay u back? is it worth it?

bottom line, costly !!

a story to share:

my friend working in this X-company... work work work ... then salary not paid almost 3 month, epf? of coz not paid too.. the management promise tomorrow paid.. sweet talk dont last forever because the management just dont want to paid

then my freind tension enough... with other colleague in the same x-company lodged a report to jabatan buruh / labour office, after that, they my freind quit his job...

and u know, till know nothing happen !!! jab.buruh doing nothing!!! this cases was lodged in 2005

the more sad news is , this year that x-company open again with new staff line up.. like nothing happen lol!!!

i think u will be blacklist for sure, but drag to court? i dont think soo... maybe lah, but like our own court , they got many cases still pending for trial lol !!

i heard many story from e.g x-vads,x-scicom etc .. if they hate their work , the just gone MIA or what we call AWOL (absence without leave) for 3 days and on the fourth days , auto terminated .. they got blacklisted of coz but just that only.. no need to pay...

so for TS(thread starter)... just work lah at new place.. dont think deeply about this.. if u got money , pay them lah .. if not ... what to do..

but that doesn`t mean for you new guys thinking that this was the great escape if you hate your job , then just chow
i`m not encouraging anyhting... do at at your won risk !!
you are not kids anymore!!!

u got many reason for MIA right? personal ? or for the name of fun? what ever it is...

dont do this anymore... if u keep on doing it , someday it will get back to you...
what comes around goes around wooo

ps: many good company goes to court too, microsoft because of monopoly issue over their internet browser, EA (electronic courts) goes to court because not paying their staff for benefit/overtime