Transient Workers Count Too received a complaint about a post on this website about Singapore mums using blogs to vent about their maids. The blogger, Expat Bostonians, has written a rebuttal here. Her point was that she never intended to demonise domestic helpers and that it was unfair to her to be quoting from her
We usually write about the situations that bring workers to Transient Workers Count Too's Cuff Road Food Programme — injury, salary dispute, etc — but seldom about what they do to sustain themselves once their work permits are cancelled and they're put on special passes. A condition of the special pass issued by the Ministry
The newspaper Today reported on 26 April 2013 that construction company Zhong Jiang (Singapore) International was fined $8,000 for failing to pay salaries on time to ten workers, between last October and December. The salaries that were paid late came up to more than S$44,400, and were for the months of September to November. The company pleaded guilty to
The above video was created by a group of students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. Introducing themselves to TWC2 at the start of their project and seeking our endorsement, they wrote: "We have chosen to do our project on construction worker and how they are human too
All it takes is one bad experience and an internet connection to start venting your spleen against a maid. Or eight in the case of one blogger. ‘Employing a Maid in Singapore’ was conceived to offer support to "employers who have suffered at the hands of bad maids". It is one of a number of
New TWC2 Executive Committee At the Annual General Meeting on Sunday, 24 March 2013, the following were elected un-opposed to the nine-member Executive Committee: President: Russell Heng Hiang Khng Vice President: Alex Au Waipang Secretary: Bashir Basalamah Treasurer: Noorashikin Abdul Rahman The other 5 members of the committee are: Deborah Desloge Fordyce, Jill Ratnam, Robert
"We all are aware of how certain sectors do practice churning and I will be looking at clamping down on that through the EFMA (Employment of Foreign Manpower Act) measures,"said Acting Minister for Manpower, Tan Chuan-jin, in parliament on 14 March 2013 during the budget debate. However, the specific change he announced was only for
Magalingam Rajesh, 29, a construction worker from India, was killed slightly after 7am on Friday, 15 March 2013, when the lorry he was riding in tipped over onto its side. He was among eight workers seated on the lorry's flatbed. The Straits Times reported that he had been working in Singapore for eight years. The
"A proposal that has received wide public support is on legislating mandatory payslips and salary records for all employees," said Acting Minister for Manpower, Tan Chuan-jin, in parliament on 14 March 2013. "Some MPs also raised this and we are supportive." He didn't mention that TWC2 has been pressing his ministry on this for years.
Salauddin broke down in tears when the court acquitted him, late December 2012. But by then, he had already lost his freedom for five months. And through that period, his family wondered what became of him and why remittances stopped. All because he didn't have money for bail. He didn't even have the $10 that
