Masud al Manum met a tragic and untimely death when a concrete slab fell on him. He was operating an excavator three or four storeys deep inside a hole in the ground when the slab, measuring 4m by 2m, fell. It occurred at the construction site of the Downtown Line’s Botanic Gardens Station, in the...
At the parliamentary sitting of Monday, March 5, 2012, the member for the Silat precinct of Tanjong Pagar group representation constituency, Indranee Rajah, spoke of what she recently discovered about the situation injured foreign workers found themselves in. Residents had complained about the large numbers of foreign workers in their area. The People’s Action Party...
Four foreign workers were made to live in a rubbish bin centre by their employer. However, to conceal this fact from the Ministry of Manpower, general manager Lim Jiun Wei, 38, and site manager Wan Kar Hou Francis, 32, made false declarations about the residential address of these employees. Today newspaper reported on March 7,...
Chinese national and Singapore permanent resident Wang Jianping paid Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions for 41 Singaporeans whom he had declared to be his employees. between May 2007 and February 2009. On March 5, 2012, he was jailed a month after pleading guilty to using this ruse — the workers were not genuine employees —...
Rezzilyn Lodia Vinegas, 33, and Mohamad Sumon Lutfar, 22, were found dead with severe slash wounds on Sunday night (March 4, 2012). Their bodies, with injuries to the throat and arms, were found by a hotel worker about five and a half hours after they checked in together into the inn, located in Geylang district...
Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-jin announced in parliament that employers of foreign domestic workers on new or renewed Work Permits starting Jan 1, 2013, will be required to give a weekly day off. However, if the worker agrees to work on her day off, she can be compensated with additional pay, computed at...
A 26-year-old domestic worker plunged to her death after clinging on for five minutes eight floors above the ground. She was believed to have been cleaning the windows when she lost her footing. One of two people who tried to hold on to her and pull her in was a fellow Indonesian maid from a...
Norhanita Sulaiman, 43, pleaded guilty, February 21, 2012, to criminal intimidation against her domestic worker from Indonesia. The employer had threatened Siti Musyarofah, 44, with a 12cm-long knife, and branded on her face with a hot iron. The abuses began in February 2010. In June that year, unhappy that Siti reprimanded Norhanita’s three-year-old son for...
Today, the newspaper, carried a story attributed to its sister medium, Channel NewsAsia, reporting that 27 employers were taken to court in the first six months of 2011 for hiring illegal workers. Most were fined, with only two receiving jailtime. The story mentioned the need to raise wages in response to labour shortage, though this...
The Online Citizen reported, February 6, 2012, that about 200 mostly Bangladeshi workers downed tools at their worksite in Tampines over unpaid salaries. The key details reported were: At 8 am, instead of starting work, the workers went on strike because they have not been paid since October 2011. TOC understands that several pleas to...