News and opinions in the public domain and TWC2’s response
Some employers are experimenting with public posters offering a reward to anyone who can help located a missing worker rather than turn to repatriation companies, reported the Straits Times, November 21, 2011. James Ng, a construction firm manager, is one of them, offering $2,000 as reward. Two of his workers had gone missing and with
Channel NewsAsia carried an eye-witness report of an employer handing over to the police a worker who had gone missing and was later caught presumably by private security agents. The employer Mr Ng told the reporter that employers are liable for missing workers, and they may face legal repercussions, if workers get into any accident,
Today newspaper carried the gist of TWC2's press release, pointing out that giving employers total freedom to terminate and repatriate migrant workers is the source of much exploitation. The newspaper's edition of November 15, 2011, also carried additional comments by TWC2 immediate past president John Gee, suggesting that employers wanting to effect early termination be
In a blogpost dated November 17, 2011, Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-jin, mentioned his recent visit to TWC2's frontline operations at Cuff Road. He wrote: Early this month (1 Nov), I visited the Migrant Workers Centre (MWC), a bipartite NGO set up by employers and unions, as well as the Cuff Road Project
The Yawning Bread blog has a story of a Chinese worker cheated of 27,000 yuan (approx S$ 5,400). Arriving here only to find that the job he was offered was non-existent, he was then wrongfully detained by repatriation agents who became menacing when he wanted to leave for the Ministry of Manpower to lodge a
Questions and common defences for existing treatment of foreign domestic workers by their employers and TWC2's responses: 1. Don't most domestic workers agree to the conditions they work under? If a woman has signed a contract with the employer that says that she agrees to have no time off for two years, how can anyone
November 14, 2011 For immediate release Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) applauds Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-jin's personal involvement in raids conducted against substandard accommodation for foreign workers (Straits Times, 11 November 2011: Minister leads checks on workers’ dorms, by Kezia Toh), as a welcome sign of greater governmental attention to the issue
One location that was housing foreign workers was " abysmal" while the other was " over-crowded", wrote Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-jin on his Facebook wall after being with two raids on migrant worker quarters. Dated and clocked in the early hours of Thursday, November 10, 2011, the Facebook post said: Just returned
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In a follow-up story to that of November 4, the Straits Times reported Monday, November 7, 2011, that employers and recruitment agents are encouraging their foreign workers to apply for voluntary exclusion from the casinos before they arrive in Singapore, or as soon as they set foot here. Some employers are even making it a
