No dormitory case of Covid-19 in month of March 2021
In September 2020, we had 801 Covid-19 cases from the dorms. From October, there has been a dramatic improvement.
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04, 2021
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04, 2021
US State Dept’s 2020 human rights report on Singapore
Among the issues touched on are indications of forced labor, restrictions of workers' movement during Covid-19, arrests of foreign workers on terrorism grounds.
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03, 2021
Switching jobs: Bravely into the minefield
A deep study of the hazards encountered by migrant workers in their attempts to switch jobs. Rules are complex, costs are high and plans easily derailed.
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03, 2021
Give domestic workers a break
For all the wringing of hands over abuse of domestic workers, one key solution has still not been implemented despite TWC2 proposing it nearly two decades ago.
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03, 2021
Employers claw back cost of stay-home period from arriving workers
MOM says employers must bear the full cost of newly-arriving workers' quarantine stay. Without victim protection, our policy-makers are whistling in the wind.
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03, 2021
How did 5,000 salary claims a year become 1,400 over five years?
In 2018 and 2019, over 60% of all salary claims were filed by foreign employees. Even digging these basic figures out involved sleuthing. Many things still opaque.
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03, 2021
97 percent of employers of dorm-based workers now pay through bank
This represents good improvement, but to be meaningful, more needs to be disclosed as to how this figure was arrived at and what monitoring system is in place.
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03, 2021
Dengue fever leads to whim and spite, all blessed by government policy
Sumon's experience falling ill with dengue uncovers the ugly and callous side of Singapore's kafala system, trapping workers within employers' whim and spite.
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02, 2021
Straits Times’ Migrant Burden: background and commentary
A good video highlighting one of the critical issues in the exploitation of migrant workers -- recruitment costs This article adds more information surrounding it.
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02, 2021
Domestic worker dies from abuse and starvation, commentary 2
Baying for blood is easy. Looking unflinchingly at how regulatory policies and priorities contributed to the torture and killing of a domestic worker would be more positive.