Like many shipyard workers who come to TWC2 for help, Salak tells us about his recruitment fee and the agent's efforts to cover it up. His experience is no exception.
What happens when a foreigner finds himself or herself the subject of a police report made by someone else? What happens if the police have little evidence to go on?
Here is another shipyard worker, with a recruitment fee story like many others, except that the details show how involved the employer was in the fee negotiations.
Lots of migrant workers can be found in our F&B sector, but the exploitative working conditions are terrible, despite nice laws.
Many injured workers report that company representatives accompany them to doctor appointments, and influence doctors' actions. Here's one case and its implications.
It first began with the employer cutting out the agent (to the worker's advantage), but it actually was a sign that the employer couldn't be trusted to honour the contract.
Excessive overtime, well above the legal maximum, and still not paid - a worker's tale from one of Singapore's many food courts.
A migrant employee at a midprice restaurant recounts the many things that made the job unbearable: salary violations, long hours, and the cook.
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?
