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TWC2 partners with Ogilvy & Mather to call on employers to give domestic workers their due day off
Press Release 23 April 2015 In the run up to International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, on May 1, TWC2 has partnered with Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) to launch a campaign urging employers to grant a weekly day off to their domestic workers. As part of the campaign, O&M has created a short film
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04, 2015
Kickbacks in the news: MWC urges workers to complain; reader retorts: “unlikely to work”
In the wake of the sentencing of a construction company boss for demanding kickbacks from his employees (see news story in Today newspaper, thumbnail at right), the Straits Times had a story about his unsavoury practice on 13 April 2015. The Straits Times noted that extortionate demands are typically made when the worker is most
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04, 2015
Letter to Straits Times: Lower debt, raise job security
Following the deaths of two Bangladeshi workers in a fire , and a commentary article by Straits Times journalist Toh Yong Chuan (7 April 2015), TWC2 president Noorashikin Abdul Rahman wrote to the editor to better focus the root causes of poor housing. The letter was published on 17 April 2015. Lower debt, raise job
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04, 2015
BBC features a 17,000-man dormitory
Headlined Singapore is keeping an eye on its foreign workers, the BBC did a report (14 April 2015) on Tuas View Dormitory, said to be the largest in Singapore, housing 17,000 migrant workers. While showcasing its facilities, it also discusses the surveillance system incorporated into its design and operations. The question of its location, at
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04, 2015
Thousands of possibly trafficked fishermen rescued from Indonesian islands
The Guardian newspaper reported that s many as 4,000 fishermen, mostly Burmese with some Cambodians and Thais are being rescued from remote islands of the Indonesian archipelago. A quarter of them are said to be on Benjina, an island in the Aru group south of West Papua. After the Indonesian government imposed a ban on
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04, 2015
Medical Council hauls 2 doctors to disciplinary tribunal
Jolovan Wham, Executive Director of fellow migrant-worker NGO, the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) posted on his Facebook page the news that the Singapore Medical Council is holding a disciplinary tribunal over two doctors. TWC2's clients have reported very similar experiences: severe injuries, yet given only one or two days' medical leave. Workers
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04, 2015
In the news: bad food served to workers
"Foul-smelling curry, rock-solid fish with scales still intact..." -- this was how Today newspaper opened its story (titled "Foreign workers served 'unappetising, stale food'", 19 March 2015) on the poor quality of food that foreign workers get. The story referred primarily to male workers at construction sites. Based on an on-going survey by researchers from
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03, 2015
Wide and wider our circle expands
By Russell Heng A line from an old song I know underlines TWC2’s experience when staff at Barclays, Singapore raised $25,670 for us in 2 hours of one afternoon. It goes, “Wider and wider our circle expands”. Let’s start at the very beginning. In September a bank staff Deepak Siddappa wrote to say they are
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03, 2015
New case management software comes on stream
Alex Au (L) and Pat Meyer (R) discuss setting priorities, while Miguel Pina (C) tests out how to import old data from spreadsheets into the new system The first week of March opened with many fingers crossed. Transient Workers Count Too's new Case Management System (Camans) was going live. The new application would