A Burmese worker tells us about discrimination over rest days, misleading recruitment and uncompensated overtime; his attempts to resolve them internaly led nowhere.
Despite great efforts at TWC2, workers don't often get full satisfaction over their grievances. And then when we least expect it, things turn out right.
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.
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.
Work Permit holders are often summarily terminated. Yet our laws contain clauses about wrongful dismissal. When would a dismissal be wrongful? We had a test case before the Employment Claims Tribunal.
A worker went to MOM and TADM saying he was being asked to work 14 hours a day, which he refused, and that he was then fired. He was told that he had no case. And the logic is?
