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16 05, 2015

Bangladeshi construction worker fined $40,000; acted as unlicensed employment agent

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For a payment of $3,000, Ahmead Rubel, 28, found a job for fellow Bangladeshi, Jabed, to work as a construction worker in Nanjing Minglu Construction Engineering Co. Ltd. For conducting employment agency activities without a valid employment agency licence, Rubel -- himself a construction worker -- was fined $40,000 in default four months' imprisonment, reported

13 05, 2015

49 employers “prosecuted for severe breaches” in 2014 over salary non-payment

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Minister for Manpower Lim Swee Say In response to a question by Member of Parliament Hri Kumar (PAP Bishan), the Minister for Manpower, Lim Swee Say, provided an oral answer in Parliament on 11 May 2015: The Employment Act (EA) protects both local and foreign workers against salary non-payment. Under the law, employers

13 05, 2015

To solve salary non-payments, underlying factors must be addressed too

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A typical day in TWC2's office. Foreground: six workers owed 4 months' pay, calculating their owed amounts including overtime. Rear: five workers from a different company waiting to consult with TWC2's social worker. They had come to Singapore with MOM's approval for a job, only to be told by the boss that there's no

23 04, 2015

Students who developed TWC2 case management system bag two awards

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The student team which developed the new case management system for Transient Workers Count Too won two awards at their school's IS480 Poster Day on 22 April 2015. Team Creovate (shown above with their faculty adviser David Lo) won: Lien Centre award recognising best project for NGO client Award for the project delivering best value

23 04, 2015

igiveadayoff.org

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What may help the bonding with your child is also a fundamental worker’s right: a weekly day off | Watch the video at http://Igiveadayoff.org | Read TWC2's press release (next item below)

23 04, 2015

TWC2 partners with Ogilvy & Mather to call on employers to give domestic workers their due day off

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Press Release 23 April 2015 In the run up to International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, on May 1, TWC2 has partnered with Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) to launch a campaign urging employers to grant a weekly day off to their domestic workers. As part of the campaign, O&M has created a short film

21 04, 2015

Kickbacks in the news: MWC urges workers to complain; reader retorts: “unlikely to work”

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In the wake of the sentencing of a construction company boss for demanding kickbacks from his employees (see news story in Today newspaper, thumbnail at right), the Straits Times had a story about his unsavoury practice on 13 April 2015. The Straits Times noted that extortionate demands are typically made when the worker is most

21 04, 2015

Letter to Straits Times: Lower debt, raise job security

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Following the deaths of two Bangladeshi workers in a fire , and a commentary article by Straits Times journalist Toh Yong Chuan (7 April 2015), TWC2 president Noorashikin Abdul Rahman wrote to the editor to better focus the root causes of poor housing. The letter was published on 17 April 2015. Lower debt, raise job

20 04, 2015

BBC features a 17,000-man dormitory

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Headlined Singapore is keeping an eye on its foreign workers, the BBC did a report (14 April 2015) on Tuas View Dormitory, said to be the largest in Singapore, housing 17,000 migrant workers. While showcasing its facilities, it also discusses the surveillance system incorporated into its design and operations. The question of its location, at

11 04, 2015

Thousands of possibly trafficked fishermen rescued from Indonesian islands

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The Guardian newspaper reported that s many as 4,000 fishermen, mostly Burmese with some Cambodians and Thais are being rescued from remote islands of the Indonesian archipelago. A quarter of them are said to be on Benjina, an island in the Aru group south of West Papua. After the Indonesian government imposed a ban on