Stories about workers’ experiences, the many ways our volunteers help, insights and facts that TWC2 have unearthed

20 12, 2012

Helping with the basics

2019-08-30T16:35:21+08:00December 20th, 2012|Articles, Stories, Uncategorized|

Some cases that come to Transient Workers Count Too are very complicated. Others, especially of serious injuries, are heart-breaking. But Zay Lay Tun's request was a simple one: He wants help to resign from his job in an orderly way. He has no idea how. "I want go home see my mother," he says. He's

19 12, 2012

Manpower ministry receives about 600 complaints a month

2019-08-30T16:35:21+08:00December 19th, 2012|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, News, News Flash, Uncategorized|

In a blogpost to mark International Migrants Day, Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin revealed some statistics: MOM receives some 7,000 telephone enquiries and 2,500 emails per month on employment-related matters from both local and foreign workers. Some 600 statutory employment claims (e.g. non-payment of salary or overtime pay, unauthorised deductions made from salary etc) are

18 12, 2012

TWC2 marks International Migrants Day with sports fun

2019-08-30T16:35:21+08:00December 18th, 2012|Articles, Happenings, Uncategorized|

Transient Workers Count Too celebrated International Migrants Day 2012 with a sports carnival 16 December 2012. Several rounds of men's and women's volleyball and women's futsal were played. We also took the opportunity to do more outreach to inform workers of their rights, and to recognise the long service to Singapore families by domestic workers who

15 12, 2012

Put in a fix by uncontactable boss

2019-08-30T16:35:21+08:00December 15th, 2012|Articles, Stories, Uncategorized|

By Suresh At a time when employers are crying for shortage of workers in Singapore, a worrying trend of foreign workers hanging around with no work is seen on the rise. Their employers brought them in with valid work permits, and then disappeared. Two workers from Bangladesh --  Rubel Hazrat Ali, 28, and Abdul Alim

10 12, 2012

NIE students contribute a video for IMD 2012

2019-08-30T16:35:21+08:00December 10th, 2012|Articles, Happenings, Uncategorized|

Student volunteers from the National Institute of Education, assisting TWC2 in preparing for this year's International Migrants Day produced the above video. Looks like fun! International Migrants Day is a United Nations-endorsed event to mark the contributions of migrant workers to society everywhere. Transient Workers Count Too will be celebrating with a sports day in

27 11, 2012

Motorbikes lost

2019-08-30T16:35:21+08:00November 27th, 2012|Articles, Stories, Uncategorized|

The night she came screaming into the kitchen was the night the motorbikes took off. Fernando is left nursing his financial wounds. This story sounds a bit of a farce, except that it's real. The events Fernando Wawalege recounted happened only a few weeks earlier. He had come to Singapore from his native Sri Lanka

24 11, 2012

In lawyer we trust

2019-08-30T16:35:22+08:00November 24th, 2012|Articles, Stories, Uncategorized|

By Rachel Hui Three months after a lorry collision (see story on AsiaOne) that left twenty-five foreign workers injured and one dead, Pandian, 34, the driver of one of the lorries, still cannot walk without his crutches. His hip and upper legs had been trapped inside the vehicle. “Fifty stitch,” he says, pointing to the

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