Interesting updates related to migrant worker issues

6 03, 2012

Pair found dead in Geylang hotel

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00March 6th, 2012|News, News Flash|

Rezzilyn Lodia Vinegas, 33, and Mohamad Sumon Lutfar, 22, were found dead with severe slash wounds on Sunday night (March 4, 2012). Their bodies, with injuries to the throat and arms, were found by a hotel worker about five and a half hours after they checked in together into the inn, located in

5 03, 2012

Weekly day off to become mandatory

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00March 5th, 2012|News, News Flash|

Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-jin announced in parliament that employers of foreign domestic workers on new or renewed Work Permits starting Jan 1, 2013, will be required to give a weekly day off. However, if the worker agrees to work on her day off, she can be compensated with additional pay, computed at

24 02, 2012

Housewife admits hurting and threatening maid

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 24th, 2012|News, News Flash|

Norhanita Sulaiman, 43, pleaded guilty, February 21, 2012, to criminal intimidation against her domestic worker from Indonesia. The employer had threatened Siti Musyarofah, 44,  with a 12cm-long knife, and branded on her face with a hot iron. The abuses began in February 2010. In June that year, unhappy that Siti reprimanded Norhanita's three-year-old son for

13 02, 2012

27 employers found hiring illegal foreign workers in first half of 2011

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 13th, 2012|News, News Flash|

Today, the newspaper, carried a story attributed to its sister medium, Channel NewsAsia, reporting that 27 employers were taken to court in the first six months of 2011 for hiring illegal workers. Most were fined, with only two receiving jailtime. The story mentioned the need to raise wages in response to labour shortage, though this

9 02, 2012

About 200 workers strike at Tampines construction site

2019-08-30T16:36:21+08:00February 9th, 2012|News Flash|

The Online Citizen reported, February 6, 2012, that about 200 mostly Bangladeshi workers downed tools at their worksite in Tampines over unpaid salaries. The key details reported were: At 8 am, instead of starting work, the workers went on strike because they have not been paid since October 2011.  TOC understands that several pleas to

31 01, 2012

Man fined $16k for false MOM declaration of workers’ salaries

2019-08-30T16:36:22+08:00January 31st, 2012|News, News Flash|

Andy Nelson Ng Mui Shee (right) was fined $16,000 on Monday, January 30, 2012, for four counts of false declaration of foreign workers' salaries. This is an offence under the Employment of Foriegn Workers Act. The assistant sales manager at an employment agency had been asked by two client companies -- Sun Blues Cleaning Maintenance

23 01, 2012

Man charged with dumping worker’s body

2019-08-30T16:36:22+08:00January 23rd, 2012|News, News Flash|

Indian national Chelladurai Lenin, 42, reportedly fell at a construction site, but did not want to be sent to hospital because he was working here illegally and was afraid of being deported. He later died of a fractured skull and bleeding in the head, reported the Straits Times, January 20, 2012. According to his wife,

23 01, 2012

16-year-old maid has murder charge reduced

2019-08-30T16:36:22+08:00January 23rd, 2012|News, News Flash|

Originally charged with murder, which carries a mandatory death penalty, Indonesian domestic worker Fitriah, also known as Vitria Depsi Wahyuni, has had her charge reduced to culpable homicide, reported the Straits Times on January 20, 2012. She is accused of killing her elderly employer, Madam Sng Gek Wah, 87, at the latter's Serangoon Gardens home

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