News and opinions in the public domain and TWC2’s response

3 07, 2015

Kuwait revamps recruitment companies for domestic workers, raises workers’ rights

2019-08-30T16:32:28+08:00July 3rd, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, News, News Flash|

Kuwait's legislature passed two new laws recently to improve the conditions of domestic workers. One of the laws sets up a new type of company for recruiting domestic workers to replace the private companies that currently recruit domestic helpers. The new type of company cannot take any payments from the recruited workers. According to a statement

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17 06, 2015

Ensure pay is banked, offer (job) mobility

2019-08-30T16:32:29+08:00June 17th, 2015|Media Coverage, News, Our Stand|

Published in the Straits Times Forum, 17 June 2015: --- FOREIGN WORKERS' WAGE WOES Ensure pay is banked, offer mobility Sunday's report ("More foreign workers seek help over wage woes") mentioned that the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will be making it mandatory for employers to issue itemised payslips next year. Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2)

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17 06, 2015

MOM to require salary slips from 2016?

2019-08-30T16:32:29+08:00June 17th, 2015|News, News Flash, Our Stand|

Buried within a news story in the Sunday Times (More foreign workers seek help over wage woes, 14 June 2015) was this sentence: Next year, employers must issue itemised payslips and provide written key employment terms, to prevent salary disputes, MOM said. A check at the ministry's website does not indicate any recent announcement on

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16 06, 2015

TWC2 submits UPR shadow report to UN Human Rights

2019-08-30T16:32:29+08:00June 16th, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, News, Our Stand|

Once in four years, each member state of the United Nations is subject to peer review with respect to its human rights record. The Singapore government will appear before this process, known as Universal Periodic Review (UPR), in Geneva, in January 2016. In the lead-up to this process, the UN Office of the High Commissioner

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16 06, 2015

Straits Times: Workers lose savings in fire at dorm

2019-08-30T16:32:30+08:00June 16th, 2015|News, News Flash|

Photo from Straits Times, Desmond Foo A fire destroyed a workers' dormitory in Choa Chu Kang on Thursday 11 June 2015. This was reported in the Straits Times the day after. The fire was extinguished within an hour, but three firefighters were hurt. The newspaper reported: The dormitory houses about 250 workers, but

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14 06, 2015

Today newspaper reports on our ‘day off’ findings

2019-08-30T16:32:30+08:00June 14th, 2015|Media Coverage, News|

Today newspaper devoted a full page to our newly-released research report on weekly day off for domestic workers. Of the 195 respondents surveyed by the non-governmental organisation from July 2013 to October last year, only 41 per cent said they had four rest days each month. Close to a quarter said they got either one

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11 06, 2015

The Right to Rest: The effectiveness of the ‘day off’ legislation for foreign domestic workers

2019-08-30T16:32:30+08:00June 11th, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, News, Our Stand, Press Releases|

Government legislation has helped improve foreign domestic workers’ access to compensation in lieu of a day off, but 59% of foreign domestic workers in Singapore still do not get a weekly day off. To mark International Domestic Workers’ Day (16 June 2015), Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) publishes a new report: ‘The Right to Rest:

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16 05, 2015

Retiree guilty of hitting, pouring bleach on maid

2019-08-30T16:32:31+08:00May 16th, 2015|News, News Flash|

Lum Wai Lui, 74, pleaded guilty to two charges on 13 May 2015 of abusing a domestic worker in the family home. She had slapped and poured bleach on Filipina Jonna Memeje Muegue, 25, as 'punishment'. The domestic worker had been accused of eating a salmon meal that was not meant for her. The Straits

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