Dating from 2014, this featured article is a review of the inequalities inherent in the employer-employee relationship with respect to migrant workers in Singapore. Citing cases Meera Rajah came across while volunteering with TWC2, she shows how these imbalances manifest in workers' lived experiences.
The kindest route to take in helping men with virtually no hope of recovering unpaid salaries may be to just give them some money and move on. But the argument can be made that this does not serve the public interest. Weigh the pros and cons.
Salim arrived in Singapore with an IPA letter saying the job would pay him $950 per month. Within 36 hours, his boss told him the salary would be around $520 a month. Take it or leave it.
Three Indonesian domestic workers reported to have links with ISIS; they have been detained under the ISA to be investigated.
MOM accuses TWC2 of making three "false allegations". We show here how baseless their accusations are. MOM shouldn't be so prickly and defensive.
Many low-wage workers from Bangladesh continue to use an informal remittance system to send money back home despite it being an unregulated system. Why do they choose that?
The High Court found that a foreign worker's testimony in support of his employer's version of events in an accident was "unreliable". Indeed, TWC2 have heard of many cases where workmates bear false witness. Why do they do that?
TWC2 responds to a letter in the Straits Times calling for KPIs for domestic workers.
Eight men under TWC2's care are introduced to a new career possibility: baristas, courtesy of The Coffee Roasters Cafe.
A wildly swinging pole hit a worker, leaving him with contusion on his right chest. Pain lasted for many days. But MOM said the injury was not work-related. Right decision or wrong?
