Acting Minister for Manpower Tan Chuan-jin penned a blogpost in the Manpower blog in which he sought to explain to the Singapore public the recent trends in foreign workforce numbers. He said that many businesses have told him that his ministry, by tightening work passes for foreigners, was "unreasonably making it difficult for businesses". However,
The Straits Times reported on 4 October 2012 that an employment agency has been fined $5,000 for overcharging two foreign workers. The news report did not name the agency. The workers involved were a man and a woman -- countries of origin not stated -- who worked in the manufacturing sector. The agency was also
A 24-year-old domestic worker is being investigated by the police for giving false information, reported the Straits Times Breaking news, 8 October 2012. The brief report, short on details, mentioned that she had lied to her employer that there had been a man trespassing into the property. Following that, the employer, believing the tale to
The New Paper carried, on Saturday, 29 September 2012, the story of the emergency airlift home for Amin Late Abu Taher that took place two days earlier. This story is now archived on the AsiaOne site. Link. ----- "I hope to see my family" The New Paper, 29 September 2012, by Benson Ang For a
The drop in the number of immigration offenders was covered recently in the news: 2,077, 1,698, and 1,318 people were arrested for immigration offences in the first half of 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively [endnote 1]. The news story did not reveal whether these numbers included both male and female immigration offenders, who encounter significantly
Parliament passed amendments to the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (EFMA) on 11 September 2012. There is no indication from press reports of any further changes to the bill first read at the beginning of August. See TWC2's Our Stand Statement on the amendments. As reported by the Straits Times, Errant employers who try to
By Debbie and Alex After a full day's work on 17 July 2012, Rabel (not his real name) was called to the office to see his boss. "Boss say I have to leave company," he told Transient Workers Count Too. The employer asked him to sign a piece of paper stating that his work performance
The Ministry of Manpower says only one percent of work injury claimants find themselves facing employers who did not have work injury insurance. Straits Times, Thurs, 30 Aug 2012. It also concedes that the vast majority of cases in which employers did not have work injury insurance were not prosecuted. No escape from the law
Continued from part 2 This is the last of three parts: A week after the attack, which left Nurul with a bloodied right eye, I sat down with all three men to discuss the events of the last few weeks. Kamaruzzaman won’t talk to me about what happened in Geylang, stonewalling all questions about brothels
Shivaji Das married Yolanda early August but organised a special wedding feast specially for TWC2 beneficiaries of The Cuff Road Project coinciding with Eid al-fitri, locally known as Hari Raya Puasa, which this year fell on 19 August 2012. This unprecedented gesture only shows his commitment to TWC2 where he has been a volunteer (and
