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.
Agents earn huge sums off the backs of migrant workers from Bangladesh coming to work in Singapore. Do these agents contribute to our economy?
A worker on a lorry that met with an accident died in December. It's common to carry both men and equipment together on the back of lorries. We speak to three workers about the danger this poses.
The basis for issuing stern warnings is loose and opaque; factually innocent people can be slapped with warnings, and then be administratively penalised.
Eleven months after hurting his back carrying cement, Hulyah describes how his Wica injury claim is coming along
A boss demands more than half a worker's salary back, for a reason that shifts from time to time, including levy.
A worker went through a skills upgrading course and took an exam. He passed. All went well for six years untill a letter from MOM arrived at his employer's office.
From a survey of mostly Indian Tamil migrant workers conducted in October 2024, 5.6 percent was still paid salaries in cash. 12.2 percent were paid later than permitted by law.
Many workers who come to TWC2 with salary issues have time sheets or payslips that show them being asked to worked inhumanly long hours. Surely, employers know the law?
Promised in writing a salary of $4,000 a month, yet never paid more than half or two-thirds of that, what is a migrant worker to do? What's the likely cost of seeking salary justice?
