Stories about workers’ experiences, the many ways our volunteers help, insights and facts that TWC2 have unearthed
The topline is that 95% of migrant workers are satisfied working in Singapore. What does that really mean? Where are possible problems?
Is the work injury compensation system stacked against workers, especially those who work singly (i.e. not in teams)? How to prove that it happened at work?
For two years, two Burmese F&B workers were paid only about half of what they should have earned. Why did they tolerate it for so long?
Migrant workers with valid employment claims have the right to switch employers. MOM issues letters to facilitate this. How many workers got such letters, and succeeded?
Responding to Parliamentary questions, MOM provides quite a few numbers relating the the abuse of the Training Employment Pass.
Many questions from MPs: about primary healthcare, kickbacks, working without work passes and the Household Services Scheme.
We conducted an online survey of non-domestic workers from Myanmar in July and August 2025 to understand their recruitment experiences.
A group of construction workers with no experience, no training and no skills were hired on S-Passes with salaries over $3,000 a month. This was no accident. When they were not paid, there was no safety net for them.
A large number of employers in MOM's 2024 survey reported using recruitment channels strongly associated with excessive fees and kickbacks. Time to stop denying how dirty our recruitment landscape is.
Difficult to get workers with the needed skills, employers say. Look more closely, and we also see a huge reluctance to sponsor workers for training, or even to give them time off to do so.
