A critical document is issued by MOM in PDF format, but nowadays, scammers have the skills to create forgeries. Prospective workers lose thousands of dollars.
Climate change increases the likelihood of extreme weather events. Migrant workers often work outdoors and are more exposed to risks and effects than others.
A story about kickbacks, a bad faith S-Pass application and a host of other breaches, all crying out for investigation, but was there any?
After a small injury, a worker was left unemployed for 20 months; employer uncooperative, insurer tardy and the regulator engaging in taichi.
Workers know they need good health. For many, what they get every day is catered food which "nobody like".
In this brief study, we assessed migrant workers' awareness of three key legal protections and, if violated, what holds them back from asserting their rights.
A doctor wrote a memo to an employer saying that a worker's injury had stabilised and that he was ready for compensation; the memo disappeared into a black hole.
Singapore's law on overtime makes a distinction between an employer's request and employee's request. Which party bears the burden of proof?
It is sickening news to hear of another worker killed while riding on the back of a lorry – an unsafe practice the Singapore government refuses to ban.
Despite having worked 15 months, a foreign worker has not met his boss; it's his agent who gives him work and pays his salary. The arrangement smells fishy.
