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Britain's Guardian newspaper carries TWC2 remarks about new weekly day-off rule
The Guardian newspaper carried news of the Singapore government's decision to make a weekly day off for domestic workers mandatory (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/06/singapore-maids-one-day-off-a-week). Describing the existing situation, reporter Kate Hodal wrote: Seven-day weeks and 14-hour days are common, a report last year found, with only 12% of domestic helpers currently getting a
Indranee Rajah takes Manpower ministry to task — audio and transcript
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
Indranee Rajah takes Manpower ministry to task — comment
At last, somebody within the ruling party has noticed a problem that Transient Workers Count Too have known about for years, and tried to bring to the Manpower ministry's attention repeatedly: there are plenty of injured workers in Singapore heartlessly abandoned by the system. Indranee Rajah, the People's Action Party
Boss housed workers in trash bin centres
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
Chinese national jailed for 41 phantom workers
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
TWC2’s stand on trafficking in persons
Prepared by John Gee for TWC2 Trafficking in persons means the moving people to a place other than their home area through coercion or deception for the purpose of exploitation. It has three elements: Actions: Recruitment, transportation or receipt of human beings; Means: The threat or use of force, other
Pair found dead in Geylang hotel
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
Weekly day off to become mandatory
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
Government making weekly rest day mandatory for foreign domestic workers a progressive move
Transient Workers Count Too Monday, 5 March 2012 Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) welcomes the announcement by the Ministry of Manpower requiring a weekly rest day for foreign domestic workers (FDW). TWC2 has been advocating this ever since we started in 2003 and is pleased that this significant move forward
Maid held on in terror for 5 minutes before falling to her death
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