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“I hope to see my family”, says dying father
The New Paper carried, on Saturday, 29 September 2012, the story of the emergency airlift home for Amin Late Abu Taher that took place two days earlier. This story is now archived on the AsiaOne site. Link. ----- "I hope to see my family" The New Paper, 29 September 2012,
“Fewer than 60 cases per year” not insured; 14 Wica prosecutions over 5 years
The Ministry of Manpower says only one percent of work injury claimants find themselves facing employers who did not have work injury insurance. Straits Times, Thurs, 30 Aug 2012. It also concedes that the vast majority of cases in which employers did not have work injury insurance were not prosecuted.
‘All investigations are conducted expeditiously’, says MOM, but no answer to question on average time taken to close a case
Straits Times reader Alex Tang, in a letter published by the newspaper in its print Forum (16 August 2012) asked a number of questions about workers placed on Special Passes because of "cheating" by employers. Queries on special-pass foreigners There are many foreigners who are holding special passes because they
Mind the gap between principle and practice, Sunday Times gently chides MOM
In carefully couched language, the Sunday Times told the government that it's all very well to enhance penalties and add new offences to the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, but unless there is enforcement, what difference will it make? Passing it will be the easy part. But the gap between
Protect vulnerable workers against abuse, says Straits Times in its leader
The Straits Times' editorial of Saturday 18 August 2012 spoke up for the amendments to the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act. Noting that when employers get away with circumventing the rules and thus pay less than the true cost of hiring foreign workers, it is "at the expense of Singaporean
Sunday Times highlights TWC2’s research ‘Worse off for working?’
A full-page feature in the Sunday Times, 12 August 2012, on the plight of foreign workers was timed to precede the first reading of amendments to the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act in Parliament the Monday after. Much of the feature revolved around a study conducted by Transient Workers Count
TWC2’s cranial reconstruction case featured in The New Paper
The New Paper carried a double-page spread on three cases of workers needing cranioplasty. The main story was about Majibar Hakim whose employer "would not pay for the surgery" said the article, though the reporter added that this could not be verified with the employer directly. It also noted that
Today newspaper follows TWC2’s website for donation news
Today, a publication of Medicorp, carried an article about donations for victims of the Bugis MRT site accident crossing $23,000 in its online edition 24 July 2012 (see below). The report cited a mention of this figure on our website, which is true for we put up the figure late
Foreign workers help the blind find their way to a bus stop
An undated posting in Facebook tells of a heartwarming encounter with Bangladeshi worker who was spending his lunch break helping a visually-impaired Singaporean get from the Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped to a bus stop. The writer says there were others doing the same. The story, posted by someone
Domestic workers: from lives of simplicity to complexity
The New Paper published a laudable background feature on domestic maids from the Philippines and Indonesia on Monday, March 26, 2012. In the three-page spread by lead writer Amanda Phua, the story described their pre-Singapore lives back in their villages where electricity is a luxury and modern household appliances unknown.