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Fifty kilos of cement and how law can turn into farce
Eleven months after hurting his back carrying cement, Hulyah describes how his Wica injury claim is coming along
Worker resists boss’ demand for kickbacks. “Don’t play with me,” warns boss
A boss demands more than half a worker's salary back, for a reason that shifts from time to time, including levy.
Worker invested $1,000 to upgrade himself; then a letter from MOM arrived
A worker went through a skills upgrading course and took an exam. He passed. All went well for six years untill a letter from MOM arrived at his employer's office.
Overworked and overlooked: the scourge of excess overtime
Many workers who come to TWC2 with salary issues have time sheets or payslips that show them being asked to worked inhumanly long hours. Surely, employers know the law?
Massively short-paid, yet too vulnerable to file a complaint
Promised in writing a salary of $4,000 a month, yet never paid more than half or two-thirds of that, what is a migrant worker to do? What's the likely cost of seeking salary justice?
The tooth fairy going around in endless circles
A tooth was chipped and cracked. The saga begins. Ten months on, the worker still hasn't received proper treatment.
Body screams “rest”; boss says “work”
A not uncommon story of a worker made to work excessive overtime and most Sundays.
We ask three men, all three had high regard for our hospitals
We poll three workers about their experiences at Singapore hospitals. They speak well of the professionalism and efficiency they see.
Ever seen negative salary? We just did
A worker's salary deductions each month exceed his basic monthly salary. If not for long hours of overtime, he would have to pay his employer for working. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Dinesh and Venish fall victim to a (made-in-Singapore?) recruitment scam
A message came into TWC2's help centre, telling us about a fake IPAs and how two workers in India paid money and were victims of a scam. Why are IPAs so easy to forge?