If paying medical bills made the employer furious, the prospect of having to pay injury compensation called for more drastic measures. Send worker home!
Quite a number of migrant construction workers describe themselves as 'supply workers'. Akash explains what that means and what a hard life it is.
Ali has to choose between keeping his job and going home to save his house. Shouldn't it be his choice to make? Shouldn't an employer respect his decision?
We did a quick poll in October 2020 to see whether dorm-based workers were back at work and whether they were getting paid. And could they get to ATMs?
Covid-immune and vaccinated workers should be retained, not sent home. An explainer why MOM policies are counter-productve.
Workers in a nearby dorm were surprised to see him running in for help. No shirt, no sandals... just plain fear.
Migrant workers do all kinds of jobs that SIngaporeans wouldn't want to do, such as working in a cemetery as a grave digger. Meet Bulbul, who loved it.
Doctors have diagnosed from MRI, X-ray, a problem with Monzur's spine after a back injury. His boss insists that Monzur is lying, claims he has videos to prove it.
Ferdous feels overwhelmed by problems: injury, unpaid salary, unrecovered recruitment fees, borrowing money to pay for treatment, delays due to Covid-19....
In Singapore, we rush to digitise many things, but forget that in the process, groups of already-disadvantaged people get left further behind.
