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1 08, 2013

Workers will bear over $5 billion of costs for injuries sustained in 2011

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Preliminary findings from a study of workplace injuries and ill-health in 2011 reveal that slightly more than half of total costs fall on workers themselves, when quantified into dollar terms. Since low-wage foreign workers tend to be the ones doing the dangerous jobs, they suffer injuries and ill-health disproportionately. Now they -- the least able

26 07, 2013

Mixed progress on maids’ day off

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This commentary by John Gee, immediate past president of TWC2, was carried in Today newspaper on 22 July 2013: --- It is just before 9am on a Sunday and there is an elegantly dressed woman in the lift, but she is carrying a large bag that does not go with her outfit. She steps out

26 07, 2013

Big cut in Filipina maids September 2

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A moratorium has been declared on sending Filipina domestic helpers to Singapore starting 2 September 2013. This news was carried by Channel NewsAsia (CNA) and the Straits Times (23 July 2013). CNA said 150 maid agencies in the Philippines, members of a trade association, want employers in Singapore to bear more of the cost of

21 07, 2013

Don’t dictate sick leave, employers told

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The Ministry of Manpower sent out an email reminder to 28,000 workplace safety and health officers telling them "not to influence doctors to give injured workers less sick leave than they need," reported the Sunday Times on 21 July 2013. According to the newspaper, this email was dated 11 July, which would be four days

17 07, 2013

25 foreigners jailed for submitting false academic qualifications

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Twenty-five foreigners pleaded guilty to "submitting forged academic certificates to the Controller of Work Passes in order to obtain work passes" on Tuesday, 16 July 2013, reported Channel NewsAsia. (Link) The 20 males and five females are aged between 19 and 48 years old. Twenty-one are from Myanmar, three from India and one from the

13 07, 2013

Straits Times editorial: Callous collusion must be stopped

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In its editorial of Saturday, 13 July 2013, the Straits Times says "collusion between doctors and employers is conduct simply too callous to go unpunished." It was addressing the issue of insufficient medical leave given by some doctors in private practice to injured workers, as covered by the newspaper in a news story last Sunday.

7 07, 2013

Doctors told to give injured workers enough leave

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The story made it to the front page. When TWC2 received a copy from Healthserve of a circular letter issued jointly by the Ministries of Health and Manpower to all registered medical practitioners, we knew it would be something the Straits Times might be interested in. We contacted the newspaper and shared it with them.

21 06, 2013

Epileptic fits after head injury, but no money for medication

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"He needs to be around somebody at all hours," says Debbie Fordyce, co-ordinator of TWC2's Cuff Road Project. "The epileptic fit can come at any time, and someone needs to catch him to make sure he doesn't fall and hurt himself." Fortunately, TWC2 has hundreds of workers on our register at any one time, idled

21 06, 2013

Singapore government should issue mandatory ‘Stop work’ order

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Media Statement: Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) is gravely concerned that current bad haze conditions will affect the health of workers in many trades, e.g. construction, marine, sanitation, landscaping. TWC2 strongly urges the government to impose a mandatory Stop Work Order when 3-hour average PSI readings, issued hourly, exceed 200, or when PM2.5 readings exceed

31 05, 2013

Five companies fined for salary delay and poor housing of workers

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Five companies were convicted for a variety of offences involving mistreatment of their foreign employees, reported Channel NewsAsia on 30 May 2013. (Link). They were named as: Soon Aik Marine Engineering Pte Ltd, Soon Aik Offshore Pte Ltd, Soon Aik Shipbuilding Pte Ltd, Yong Soon Shipbuilding Pte Ltd, and Yong Soon Marine Engineering Pte Ltd.