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Salary disputes often spring from breaches of law, why aren’t employers automatically investigated?
A story about kickbacks, a bad faith S-Pass application and a host of other breaches, all crying out for investigation, but was there any?
The man who might not even be a statistic
After a small injury, a worker was left unemployed for 20 months; employer uncooperative, insurer tardy and the regulator engaging in taichi.
Good diet and good health remain challenges
Workers know they need good health. For many, what they get every day is catered food which "nobody like".
Such is our lot: Awareness of law violations and reluctance to confront them
In this brief study, we assessed migrant workers' awareness of three key legal protections and, if violated, what holds them back from asserting their rights.
Injury claim unattended to for a year, worker left helpless
A doctor wrote a memo to an employer saying that a worker's injury had stabilised and that he was ready for compensation; the memo disappeared into a black hole.
Burden of proof: who requested work on a rest day?
Singapore's law on overtime makes a distinction between an employer's request and employee's request. Which party bears the burden of proof?
Human cargo and Singapore exceptionalism
It is sickening news to hear of another worker killed while riding on the back of a lorry – an unsafe practice the Singapore government refuses to ban.
Work permit holder has never met his boss, directed by agent to work here and there
Despite having worked 15 months, a foreign worker has not met his boss; it's his agent who gives him work and pays his salary. The arrangement smells fishy.
Faruk’s career journey and how much he has paid to agents along the way
Agents earn huge sums off the backs of migrant workers from Bangladesh coming to work in Singapore. Do these agents contribute to our economy?
Violence aboard lorries – from equipment
A worker on a lorry that met with an accident died in December. It's common to carry both men and equipment together on the back of lorries. We speak to three workers about the danger this poses.