Short notes expressing TWC2’s position on various issues. Letters to the editor and other instances of public and media engagement.
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.
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.
MOM says our story about Tan Zhengchun was inaccurate and risked risk undermining public trust and confidence. we show you how MOM's own statement was inaccurate.
A manager goes to prison for taking kickbacks from migrant workers. The impact on workers who had to pay was terrible. As positive a step this is, a far bigger issue contines to need attention.
In Singapore, the State provides little help for migrant workers' healthcare costs. Employers and private insurance are held responsible, but the responsibility is often evaded. Then what? Nothing?
The Manpower Minister sheds a bit of light on these issues through answers to parliamentary questions in September 2024
The Manpower Minister sheds a bit of light on these issues through answers to parliamentary questions in September 2024
