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Where the silver lining ends: Safiar’s hopes of avoiding further indebtedness thwarted by bureaucratic opacity
By Alston Ng based on an interview in June 2018 According to a Bloomberg article (footnote 1) dated to Jan 2017, Singaporeans face the shortest unemployment period in the world, spending a median duration of merely two months before finding new jobs. No doubt, such a short transition period indicates market resilience and points to...
Re attempts at salary reduction, MOM ties itself in knots
Based on details collected from casework in May and June 2018 When Rahman Safiar went to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) to get his Work Permit processed, he was in for a shock. It was not even two weeks after arriving in Singapore for a new job with a promised basic salary of $1,600 per...
Unreported work injuries – more than a matter of statistics
By Liang Lei, based on interviews in June 2018 It is common knowledge that timely diagnosis and treatment of injuries go a long way in minimizing pain and speeding up recovery. In Singapore, the Work Injury Compensation Act (WICA) seeks to enable that, by allowing employees injured at work to file claims for, amongst other...
Policy brief 2018, no. 2: Require mandatory reporting of injuries to MOM by healthcare providers
In the second of four policy briefs for 2018, Transient Workers Count Too recommends that healthcare providers should have a duty to report to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) when a migrant worker is issued more than three days medical leave or is hospitalised for 24 hours or longer. This should be in addition to...
89% of salary disputes arise from cash-payment employers, confirms MOM
In a parliamentary reply to a question by MP Melvin Yong, Manpower minister Josephine Teo said in July 2018 that only 11% of work permit holders lodging salary claims were paid electronically. (Scroll down for full reply). This factoid supports TWC2’s urging that electronic payment of salaries should be made mandatory. In our Policy Brief...
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IMPERSONATION IN SEEKING DONATIONS
TWC2 has been informed that during the first week of August, there have been people impersonating as staff and volunteers of TWC2, going door-to-door soliciting donations from other tenants at Golden Mile Complex where our office is located.
These individuals appear to be of various nationalities and dressed uniformly in blue polo t-shirt. They make specific reference to our unit number 09-86.
TWC2 has never and will never go door-to-door soliciting donations in such a manner.
We advice anyone encountering such individuals to ignore them and alert the complex MCST or call the police immediately.
VOLUNTEERING?
“Heartbeat”, our next orientation session for potential volunteers is scheduled for Tuesday, 14 August 2018, at 7:30 pm. If you are interested in helping with the cause, please email the Administration Officer at info@twc2.org.sg with the header “interested in volunteering”. For more information about volunteering roles, click here.