Relationships between employers and employees
26
12, 2020
Policy incoherence: vaccination and repatriation
Covid-immune and vaccinated workers should be retained, not sent home. An explainer why MOM policies are counter-productve.
10
12, 2020
Half naked man running in the night
Workers in a nearby dorm were surprised to see him running in for help. No shirt, no sandals... just plain fear.
21
11, 2020
Invisible occupations: grave exhumer
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.
14
11, 2020
Monzur the ‘liar’
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.
31
10, 2020
Ferdous has had enough, wants to go home
Ferdous feels overwhelmed by problems: injury, unpaid salary, unrecovered recruitment fees, borrowing money to pay for treatment, delays due to Covid-19....
20
10, 2020
“I don’t understand, I don’t know press one or two”
In Singapore, we rush to digitise many things, but forget that in the process, groups of already-disadvantaged people get left further behind.
17
09, 2020
Research finding: Only a handful of workers have had rest days out from dorms
We hoped to find out how workers navigated the procedure for going out on rest days. Instead we found that most weren't going anywhere.
29
07, 2020
Boss wanted to deduct $500 for one day’s absence
Sharif wasn't feeling well and wanted to rest in his room rather than go to work. As many employers of migrant workers do, a fine was to be imposed for absence.
29
06, 2020
Why we say ‘foreign domestic worker’ and not ‘helper’
The term "helper" seems to be growing in popularity, but TWC2 disagrees with its use.
1
06, 2020
Covid-19: Tales from the ground, part 4
Workers' experiences during the lock-down: a sister helping another who lost her job, a worker who came to Singapore and found a missing employer, a worker stuck here worried about his collapsing house...