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The monkey on workers’ backs named Insurance
Is the work injury compensation system stacked against workers, especially those who work singly (i.e. not in teams)? How to prove that it happened at work?
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Employer declared inflated salaries to tax department, workers hit with massive tax bill
For two years, two Burmese F&B workers were paid only about half of what they should have earned. Why did they tolerate it for so long?
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Parliamentary questions, September 2025, part 3 (Change of Employer letters)
Migrant workers with valid employment claims have the right to switch employers. MOM issues letters to facilitate this. How many workers got such letters, and succeeded?
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Parliamentary questions, September 2025, part 2 (Training Employment Passes)
Responding to Parliamentary questions, MOM provides quite a few numbers relating the the abuse of the Training Employment Pass.
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Parliamentary questions, September 2025, part 1
Many questions from MPs: about primary healthcare, kickbacks, working without work passes and the Household Services Scheme.
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Leaving to save ourselves
We conducted an online survey of non-domestic workers from Myanmar in July and August 2025 to understand their recruitment experiences.
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Singapore opens S-Pass jobs to illiterate rickshaw pullers
A group of construction workers with no experience, no training and no skills were hired on S-Passes with salaries over $3,000 a month. This was no accident. When they were not paid, there was no
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Our comments on MOM’s migrant worker survey 2024, part 2 (recruitment and retention)
A large number of employers in MOM's 2024 survey reported using recruitment channels strongly associated with excessive fees and kickbacks. Time to stop denying how dirty our recruitment landscape is.
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Our comments on MOM’s migrant worker survey 2024, part 1 (skills and training)
Difficult to get workers with the needed skills, employers say. Look more closely, and we also see a huge reluctance to sponsor workers for training, or even to give them time off to do so.
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Interesting ingredients in hotpot employee’s salary case
A restaurant worker worked 12 - 13 hours a day, and every day except for 2 rest days a month. He was not paid overtime pay. TADM said he had no case. We help him
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Foreign workforce numbers 2024
We archive what little public data there is from the Ministry of Manpower regarding the numbers of migrant labour in Singapore for the six years up to 2024
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Seven joyless workers, part 2
Seven workers recruited by the extended family of a husband-and-wife couple based in Singapore paid $9,000 each to get jobs jere. Big salaries promised, then stopped altogether.
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Seven joyless workers, part 1
There's a loophole in the law by which a migrant worker with absolutely no training in basic construction skills can become a construction worker. It's a backdoor via the S-Pass.
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Woolly “fully” – TADM’s 2024 report
TADM's annual report has useful numbers (but not enough of them), but it's frustrating to see them use language that obscures reality
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“Anything talking also send back”
An employer fails to pay salaries in full or on time, ignores the rule that salaries muct be paid through bank, or that payslips must be issued. When challenged by TADM, the boss presents falsified
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