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Despite kickbacks and salary non-payment, worker fears that getting justice is too costly
It first began with the employer cutting out the agent (to the worker's advantage), but it actually was a sign that the employer couldn't be trusted to honour the contract.
How many of our iconic food courts are tainted with modern slavery?
Excessive overtime, well above the legal maximum, and still not paid - a worker's tale from one of Singapore's many food courts.
The job was bad, the head chef made it impossible
A migrant employee at a midprice restaurant recounts the many things that made the job unbearable: salary violations, long hours, and the cook.
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?
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?
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.
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 safety net for them.
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 build one.
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.
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.