Singapore law says employers must not recover levy costs from migrant workers, but there is a legal way to do it until a worker is brave enough to challenge it
On 9 August 1965, the Republic of Singapore celebrates its 60th anniversary of nationhood. Through the decades, lots of Singaporeans have pulled together to what Singapore what it is today. Lots of non-Singaporeans too.
Casework may be the less visible part of TWC2's work, but it's key to our mission. Here's an example of how casework helped a worker.
A recruiter goes onto Facebook to publicise his scheme to hire low-wage workers in violation of Singapore law; he seems to have nothing to fear.
Over the years, ministers have repeatedly said that migrant workers with valid employment claim will be permitted to find new jobs without repatriation, but Anna was denied this.
Construction worker Domog faces a host of problems, of which his agent fee is not top of mind, but nonetheless we ask him to detail the payments he has had to make.
A worker is injured in an accident, his supervisor is called as a witness. Is it a coincidence when the supervisor is accused of theft of company property?
A curious case involving nearly 20 men approaching TWC2 within a week, all of whom had proper IPAs at MOM, but due to a mismatch of names compared with their passports, were refused Work Permits. Now left jobless.
Employers abused the Training Employment Pass scheme to hire cheap day labour; now hear it from the worker's perspective: distress, helplessness and financial disaster.
Without a sense of financial security, resigning from a bad job may be an unrealistic move for migrant workers – even when salary isn't fully paid.
