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Employment Agencies Act and Rules: Proposals for amendment 2010
Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) brought together a group of lawyers who worked on these proposals for amending the legislation and rules governing the agencies that handle the placement of many migrant workers with employers every year. The format reproduces the Act and Regulations, with the proposals inserted into the
Employment agency licensing regulations prohibit holding workers’ passports
In response to the article Employer's passport to trouble, published in Today, January 25, 2010, John Gee wrote to journalist Esther Ng: Dear Esther, I hope that you've had mostly positive reactions to your article on the retention of migrant workers' passports by agents and employers. It is an issue
Stop transporting workers in open-backed trucks, urges TWC2
Tnis letter was sent to the Straits Times on May 19, 2009: --- Dear ST, It was saddening to read your report of the accident in which four men were killed and six injured on Monday morning. Accidents are bound to happen on the roads from time to time, despite all
A day off for all
Remarks by then TWC2 president, John Gee, at a forum organised by students at National University of Singapore, 9th November 2007: 'The Maltreatment of Migrant Workers: Myths, Causes and Consequences'. Today, I want to speak particularly about the issue of a regular day off for domestic workers. Around half the