TWC2 activity: proposals and recommendations
6
01, 2026
Protected: Universal Periodic Review 2026: TWC2 and HOME submit joint report
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26
11, 2024
Ever seen negative salary? We just did
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?
23
08, 2024
TWC2 notches twenty years of service in August 2024
To mark TWC2's twentieth anniversary, we put up a series of seven videos discussing issues still bedevilling the migrant worker space.
12
01, 2023
At the Cuff Road Project: #2 of three profiles
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.
27
07, 2022
Shakib and Taher look for jobs
Two men had to look for new jobs. One was in Bangladesh and the other was in Singapore. Different outcomes.
30
09, 2021
Government announces new standards for control of virus, packaged as new dorm standards
The Ministry of Manpower announced new dormitory standards in September 2021. They're nearly all about control and surveillance, not comfort and wellbeing.
11
07, 2021
More loopholes than laws: how Singapore failed to protect John Peter, part 5
Following a detailed documentation of John Peter Ayyavu's salary claim saga, our comments about the weaknesses revealed in Singapore's salary claim system.
15
03, 2021
Give domestic workers a break
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.
11
03, 2021
Scaffolder’s story surfaces many issues: overtime, injury, salary and kickbacks
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.
11
01, 2021
Through deliveries, a window into long-existing injustice and inequality
Reflections on the pandemic: how helping workers with small essential needs reveals their vulnerabilities and the injustices they suffer.