Stories about workers’ experiences, the many ways our volunteers help, insights and facts that TWC2 have unearthed
The Manpower Minister sheds a bit of light on these issues through answers to parliamentary questions in September 2024
The Manpower Minister sheds a bit of light on these issues through answers to parliamentary questions in September 2024
After four years in his job, a worker gets promoted and his salary increased. Then paydays get pushed back further and further. Ratham needs to prove how much he is owed, but there's a snag.
We picked four men at random from our free meals programme and ask them about their payslips. All four had issues with them.
Pope Francis, during his visit to Singapore in September 2024, spoke about the need for fair wages for migrant workers. MOM responded to his comment, but what did MOM say?
Migrant workers can be source of interesting facts about their home countries. Here, they tell us about public transport.
We have a law that says the In-Principle Approval in its entirety must reach the foreign worker 3 days before he leaves for Singapore. Now we have a case study where it didn't. How did MOM respond?
The 2023 Employment Standards Report revealed a big increase in salary claims over 2022. Case officers in both TADM and TWC2 have increasing workload; their jobs are not easy. Shouldn't prevention be a higher priority?
TWC2 sponsored a team of dragon-boaters at this year's competition. For a year before that, the men and women had trained every weekend, but everything was doubly hard for them.
The no-consent transfer scheme – do workers know about it? Do they make use of it? Are they successful in transferring to new jobs if their Work Permits are not renewed?
