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16 03, 2016

Crime among foreign workers is lower than in general population, Home Affairs minister tells parliament

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Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam told Parliament on March 2016 that foreign workers commit fewer crimes per capita than the resident Singapore population. Crime incidents within the foreign worker population are lower than that among the general Singapore population, Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam told Parliament on Monday (14 March). “They are here

11 03, 2016

Only 50 complaints a year re unauthorised salary deductions. Really?

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Extracted from the Hansard (Parliamentary reports), for the record: Parliamentary sitting of 29 February 2016: Mr Chen Show Mao asked the Minister for Manpower (a) how many complaints of unauthorised salary deductions have been registered every year from 2010 to 2015; and (b) in how many of these cases are the complaints found to have

10 03, 2016

Statistics on Dependant Passes

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Extracted from the Hansard (Parliamentary reports) for the record: Parliamentary sitting of 29 February 2016. Mr Chen Show Mao asked the Minister for Manpower (a) from 2011 to 2015, what is the number of foreigners given Dependant Passes; and (b) what is the number of Dependant Pass holders who are given the Letter of Consent

7 12, 2015

Redeveloping Florida’s Remote Southern Coast

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28 11, 2015

“My friend [will] never walk again,” worker tells volunteer

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:22+08:00November 28th, 2015|Articles, News, Our Stand, Stories|

"He crushed and crumpled the leaflet in his fist and threw it away," said the young volunteer, visibly distressed by the rejection she had just encountered. "He said, 'All this no use. My friend [will] never walk again.'" Most of the time, when our volunteers fan out on our monthly outreach event, they are received

27 11, 2015

MOM takes fewer than 10% of salary-non-payment employers to court

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:22+08:00November 27th, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, News, News Flash|

For the record, we place here the relevant part of the Parliamentary minutes from the sitting of Monday, 11 May 2015. Sanctions against employers who withhold wages for foreign employees Mr Hri Kumar Nair asked the Minister for Manpower whether the Ministry will consider stronger sanctions against employers who fail to pay, or wrongfully withhold,

10 11, 2015

A Singapore company at the heart of fisherman trafficking — New York Times

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The New York Times has an exposé on Step Up Marine, a manning agency operating out of Singapore's Chinatown, and its network of recruiters in neighbouring countries. Young men are deceived and entrapped into horrendously abusive jobs on fishing trawlers, including Eril Andrade who died at sea. Court papers in the Philippines point the finger clearly

2 11, 2015

Qatar makes banked salaries mandatory, pulls ahead of Singapore

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:23+08:00November 2nd, 2015|News, News Flash, Our Stand|

Qatar's new regulations requiring employers to pay migrant workers via bank accounts will take effect in November 2015. This puts the country ahead of Singapore, where our Ministry of Manpower is not addressing a widespread weakness. Here, employers can choose to pay employees in cash, and it is fairly common for employees to report that whilst

30 10, 2015

Caretakers and domestic workers: Taiwan splits the job

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TWC2 has recently learned from a migrant worker organisation in Taiwan that the regulations there make a clear distinction between a domestic worker and a caretaker. The job of domestic workers is to look after young children. They are employed by families with at least one child under the age of six and are forbidden to

29 10, 2015

Call for proposals: Labour Court research project

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:23+08:00October 29th, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, Happenings, News, News Flash|

TWC2 is seeking collaborators to help us undertake research on Singapore's Labour Court system at the Ministry of Manpower, specifically procedures and practices relating to the salary and injury claims of migrant workers. Research will include a review of legislation and legislative history governing salary and injury claims in Labour Court and an overview of