Relationships between employers and employees
The topline is that 95% of migrant workers are satisfied working in Singapore. What does that really mean? Where are possible problems?
The topline is that 95% of migrant workers are satisfied working in Singapore. What does that really mean? Where are possible problems?
Is the work injury compensation system stacked against workers, especially those who work singly (i.e. not in teams)? How to prove that it happened at work?
For two years, two Burmese F&B workers were paid only about half of what they should have earned. Why did they tolerate it for so long?
A large number of employers in MOM's 2024 survey reported using recruitment channels strongly associated with excessive fees and kickbacks. Time to stop denying how dirty our recruitment landscape is.
Difficult to get workers with the needed skills, employers say. Look more closely, and we also see a huge reluctance to sponsor workers for training, or even to give them time off to do so.
An employer fails to pay salaries in full or on time, ignores the rule that salaries muct be paid through bank, or that payslips must be issued. When challenged by TADM, the boss presents falsified documents.
A first-time construction worker from Bangladesh walks us through the months in which he prepared for a working life in Singapore. He spent 15 months in preparation. His working life was 6 months. We haven't even mentioned money!
Workers with salary claims would typically be in financial distress; they need to move into new jobs quickly without first having to go home. The COE letter is supposed to help them. Does it?
Singapore law says employers must not recover levy costs from migrant workers, but there is a legal way to do it until a worker is brave enough to challenge it
