News and opinions in the public domain and TWC2’s response
TWC2's letter to the Straits Times Forum about the Employment Claims Tribunal process is published. Much improvement to process is needed.
The topline is that 95% of migrant workers are satisfied working in Singapore. What does that really mean? Where are possible problems?
The topline is that 95% of migrant workers are satisfied working in Singapore. What does that really mean? Where are possible problems?
The topline is that 95% of migrant workers are satisfied working in Singapore. What does that really mean? Where are possible problems?
Many questions from MPs: about primary healthcare, kickbacks, working without work passes and the Household Services Scheme.
A large number of employers in MOM's 2024 survey reported using recruitment channels strongly associated with excessive fees and kickbacks. Time to stop denying how dirty our recruitment landscape is.
Difficult to get workers with the needed skills, employers say. Look more closely, and we also see a huge reluctance to sponsor workers for training, or even to give them time off to do so.
We archive what little public data there is from the Ministry of Manpower regarding the numbers of migrant labour in Singapore for the six years up to 2024
Sixty years after Singapore ratified the ILO's Forced Labour Convention 29, we can't help but see areas where Singapore can be accused of insufficient compliance. What are those areas?
MOM says our earlier article was "misleading". We reject that characterisation. We think MOM's response was what's misleading.
