Thingyan outreach to the Burmese community a wet success
TWC2 organised a water event to mark Thingyan, the Burmese new year. It's part of our regular outreach to the migrant worker communities.
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04, 2026
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04, 2026
Agent said basic salary would be $1,550; on IPA it was $800
One day before his flight to SIngapore, a first-tme worker was handed an In-principle Approval showing his salary to be half of what he had agreed with the agent.
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04, 2026
“Dormitories are a secondary issue,” says TWC2. Debt bondage, wage theft and deceptive recruitment matter more
MOM opens a new dorm that it has built to showcase new dorm standards – a news story in Boomberg
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04, 2026
High Court rules that fixed allowances cannot “cover or subsume overtime payments”
The employer said Hulash's overtime was covered by a fixed allowance of unspecified purpose. TWC2 helped Hulash fight all the way to the High Court to win his case.
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04, 2026
Barriers to entry: access to justice for migrant workers in Singapore
This research report draws on interviews with workers pursuing ECT cases, highlighting the obstacles they face
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03, 2026
Dry numbers on time logs “cannot feel my body”
This story dives into two construction workers' time logs; they tell a tale of exhaustion.
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03, 2026
Overworked and underprotected: research into excessive overtime and loss of rest days
A new research study uncovers how common it is for migrant workers to work extremely long hours, and give up their rest days
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03, 2026
Young woman meets toothless tiger
A young woman's year in Singapore is spent exploring the toothlessness of Singapore regulators.
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03, 2026
“Every day hotel … change; daily change”
Over 120 migrant workers from three linked companies lost their jobs late 2025. For many of them it's a struggle to get a bed for the night and food in the stomach. The law is clear, but enforcement is mysteriously absent.
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03, 2026
Boss does not pay salary, prefers a cover-up – Proddi’s story
An employer had not paid his workers' salaries for five months. A few men went to MOM to file claims. In case the remaining men also do so, the employer had a plan: create evidence that salaries had been paid.