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24 02, 2012

Housewife admits hurting and threatening maid

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 24th, 2012|News, News Flash|

Norhanita Sulaiman, 43, pleaded guilty, February 21, 2012, to criminal intimidation against her domestic worker from Indonesia. The employer had threatened Siti Musyarofah, 44,  with a 12cm-long knife, and branded on her face with a hot iron. The abuses began in February 2010. In June that year, unhappy that Siti reprimanded Norhanita's three-year-old son for

13 02, 2012

27 employers found hiring illegal foreign workers in first half of 2011

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 13th, 2012|News, News Flash|

Today, the newspaper, carried a story attributed to its sister medium, Channel NewsAsia, reporting that 27 employers were taken to court in the first six months of 2011 for hiring illegal workers. Most were fined, with only two receiving jailtime. The story mentioned the need to raise wages in response to labour shortage, though this

10 02, 2012

MOM needs to be more proactive than reactive over salary complaints by foreign workers

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 10th, 2012|News, Press Releases|

Statement to the media by Transient Workers Count Too 8 February 2012 For immediate release The recently reported strike by about 200 foreign workers at a worksite in Tampines over unpaid salaries once again highlights the inadequacy of existing systems for preventing such exploitation of labour by employers. (Straits Times, 7 Feb 2012, Wage dispute

9 02, 2012

About 200 workers strike at Tampines construction site

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 9th, 2012|News Flash|

The Online Citizen reported, February 6, 2012, that about 200 mostly Bangladeshi workers downed tools at their worksite in Tampines over unpaid salaries. The key details reported were: At 8 am, instead of starting work, the workers went on strike because they have not been paid since October 2011.  TOC understands that several pleas to

3 02, 2012

The perfect job

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 3rd, 2012|Articles, Stories|

Abul Kalam thought he had found the perfect job, one that he could arrange directly with the employer and that didn’t require him to deal with an agent or recruiter in Bangladesh. Most Bangladeshi workers are recruited by a friend or acquaintance who takes $8,000 to $10,000 to line up a job in Singapore. That’s

31 01, 2012

Man fined $16k for false MOM declaration of workers’ salaries

2019-08-30T16:36:22+08:00January 31st, 2012|News, News Flash|

Andy Nelson Ng Mui Shee (right) was fined $16,000 on Monday, January 30, 2012, for four counts of false declaration of foreign workers' salaries. This is an offence under the Employment of Foriegn Workers Act. The assistant sales manager at an employment agency had been asked by two client companies -- Sun Blues Cleaning Maintenance

29 01, 2012

“MOM and the Police will ensure that the worker is not confined against his will,” says Manpower minister Tharman

2019-08-30T16:36:22+08:00January 29th, 2012|Articles, Facts, research, analysis|

Below is the transcript from the Hansard of a parliamentary question asked by Mr Pritam Singh (Workers' Party - Aljunied) on November 21, 2011. One employee of a repatriation company was jailed for voluntarily causing hurt in 2010, but from the absence of mention, it appears that no one has so far been prosecuted for

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