An injured worker had employer standing in the way of proper medical treatment, followed by an opaque "investigation" leaving him with no financial support, despite protections in the Work Injury Compensation Act.
An office worker paid $12,000 and comes to Singapore believing he will be a construction supervisor. Naturally, many things go wrong.
Migrant shipyard and related workers are paid less than a quarter of what the government considers minimum fair salaries for Singaporeans. These workers are among the lowest paid in Singapore.
Can an employer compel a worker to give up all his rest days? Sign something without letting him read it? Pay less than half the proper salary?
To often, employers cheat on salaries by not issuing payslips with sufficient detail about hours worked. Enforcement is weak. Here's a solution.
Two marine engineering workers were offered absurdly low salaries of $350. But after arriving in Singapore, the employer slashed $100 off that.
Here is a case where a worker could show us how money flowed from her Myanmar recruiter to the Singapore agency. Actually, no money flowed to the agency, even though thousands of dollars moved.
It seems there is no change in policy. Persons required to remain in Singapore can be left without the right to work, and therefore ne means to support themselves.
The crux of this story is about deductions made to a worker's salary. Just because a figure for deductions is written into the In-Principle Approval, does that make it legit?
A case study of lower-skill construction workers hired on S-Passes at inflated salaries, and who then find that no such salaries are forthcoming. Any route to justice?
