Challenging themselves to "do good famously", three interns from British advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty Limited (BBH) came up with the idea of having one of them, Ian Napier, live and work as a migrant worker for a short while, and report on what it feels like to be one in Singapore. His colleagues Mark
Starting in mid-2012, foreign workers taking on domestic work in Singapore will have to undergo a course known as the Settling-in Programme (SIP), announced Minister of State for Manpower, Tan Chuan-jin. The ministry's press release on this matter can be found here. The SIP will incorporate the existing Safety Awareness Course, but will include new
The Indonesian government is launching a scheme to help Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore with salaries during their first few months here. The scheme, known as People Business Credit for Indonesian Migrant Workers, will be managed by Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and overseen by the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs in Indonesia, said Mr Fahmi
Dismissing an appeal against a jail sentence imposed by a District Court, Judge of Appeal Justice V K Rajah said that employers who fail to pay their foreign workers on time or house them in acceptable quarters can expect to spend time in jail. Lee Chiang Theng now has to serve his four-week jail sentence
Straits Times, November 21, 2011 : Fewer than 250 foreign workers went missing each year between 2008 and last year, which worked out to an average of about 20 workers a month. Most were eventually found and repatriated, said a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) spokesman, who added that not all the employers' security deposits were
Some employers are experimenting with public posters offering a reward to anyone who can help located a missing worker rather than turn to repatriation companies, reported the Straits Times, November 21, 2011. James Ng, a construction firm manager, is one of them, offering $2,000 as reward. Two of his workers had gone missing and with
Channel NewsAsia carried an eye-witness report of an employer handing over to the police a worker who had gone missing and was later caught presumably by private security agents. The employer Mr Ng told the reporter that employers are liable for missing workers, and they may face legal repercussions, if workers get into any accident,
The Yawning Bread blog has a story of a Chinese worker cheated of 27,000 yuan (approx S$ 5,400). Arriving here only to find that the job he was offered was non-existent, he was then wrongfully detained by repatriation agents who became menacing when he wanted to leave for the Ministry of Manpower to lodge a
One location that was housing foreign workers was " abysmal" while the other was " over-crowded", wrote Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-jin on his Facebook wall after being with two raids on migrant worker quarters. Dated and clocked in the early hours of Thursday, November 10, 2011, the Facebook post said: Just returned
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