A worker's salary deductions each month exceed his basic monthly salary. If not for long hours of overtime, he would have to pay his employer for working. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
To mark TWC2's twentieth anniversary, we put up a series of seven videos discussing issues still bedevilling the migrant worker space.
What do we do at The Cuff Road Project? We profile three instances where workers came for help in addition to benefitting from our free meals.
Two men had to look for new jobs. One was in Bangladesh and the other was in Singapore. Different outcomes.
The Ministry of Manpower announced new dormitory standards in September 2021. They're nearly all about control and surveillance, not comfort and wellbeing.
Following a detailed documentation of John Peter Ayyavu's salary claim saga, our comments about the weaknesses revealed in Singapore's salary claim system.
For all the wringing of hands over abuse of domestic workers, one key solution has still not been implemented despite TWC2 proposing it nearly two decades ago.
Filing an injury claim sometimes precipitates a salary problem as well. Arzu's case shows why. He also tells us about the supervisor and employer taking kickbacks.
Reflections on the pandemic: how helping workers with small essential needs reveals their vulnerabilities and the injustices they suffer.
There are many possible measures for reducing recruitment fees, say this research report. Contains deep analyses of rationale and feasibility.
