A 17-year-old had to choose between furthering his education or becoming a migrant worker. After five years, has it turned out well?
Recruitment debt, excessive overtime, abusive working and living conditions, and retention of identity documents lead to ban and seizure of company products.
We speak to two migrant workers frm India and asked them about their first training course. How things have changed... and perhaps for the worse.
What led Ziaur to overstay? How individual decisions are shaped by policy and how misguided policy imposes costs on the State itself.
We dip our toes into this issue of information, attitudes and misinformation towards vaccination among migrant workers, through this quick chat with seven men.
Sanowar, who has been in Singapore a long time, tells TWC2 how he had to pay for his job and for subsequent Work Permit renewals. It's illegal but it happens.
As soon as the lockdown was lifted, Azom's employer reverted from electronic payment of salary to cash. What was the motive?
MOM says employers must bear the full cost of newly-arriving workers' quarantine stay. Without victim protection, our policy-makers are whistling in the wind.
Filing an injury claim sometimes precipitates a salary problem as well. Arzu's case shows why. He also tells us about the supervisor and employer taking kickbacks.
In a split second, a worker's life is turned upside down. It is too easy for employers to simply abandon their injured workers.
