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.
There's a continuing pattern of employers locking up their employees. We describe a recent case when TWC2 had to intervene and explain why such employer attitudes and behaviour persist.
Our earlier article "Management executives" washing dishes got media attention. Then more informants came to us to tell us about the issue. It's much bigger than we had thought.
Another day, another scam. This time, it involves the Training Employment Pass. This case suggests lax controls and oversight at MOM. But when real individuals lose big money, something has to be done.
A Burmese restaurant worker was never paid for overtime work, suffered huge salary deductions, and then more than a year later, discovered that the employer had substituted his contract with another one.
A Chinese worker was asked to work, not for the company stated on her work permit, but for a related company. The boss was the same. How could she say no? And then when she was not paid properly, how does she claim what's due?
