MOM processes

11 07, 2018

TWC2 supports disallowing reduction of salary from IPA

webmaster2019-08-30T16:31:03+08:00July 11th, 2018|News, News Flash, Our Stand|

In the 9 July 2018 parliamentary sitting Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo floated the following idea: MOM is considering the possibility of disallowing downward salary revisions altogether. While this will provide workers with more certainty of their wage for the entire duration of their stay in Singapore, it could also lead to possible early termination

23 06, 2018

Rashadul goes home with only pocket change

webmaster2019-08-30T16:31:04+08:00June 23rd, 2018|Articles, Our Stand, Stories|

Based on an interview in April 2018 Despite giving us a broad smile, Rashadul's life has changed for the worse. For example, his broken knee means he will never be able to squat again. The best he can do now is to kneel on his one good knee, which at least is good enough to

3 06, 2018

How our volunteers put injured workers on the road to recovery

GuestContributor2019-08-30T16:31:04+08:00June 3rd, 2018|Articles, Facts, research, analysis|

By Cheong Kwok Wy Enshrined in the constitution of the World Health Organisation, the notion of basic healthcare is widely regarded as a fundamental right for every human being. By and large, Singapore does provide that right to every transient worker that comes here, such as through mandatory health insurance. Our Work Injury Compensation Act

2 05, 2018

“Company don’t want me anymore,” says this year’s luckiest worker

webmaster2019-08-30T16:31:05+08:00May 2nd, 2018|Articles, Stories|

About ten months after Subra broke his hip, the doctor said it was time to take the metal plate and screws out. His bones had fused well. It would mean a second operation. Subra rather liked the security of having the metal pieces in place; who knows what would happen if they were taken out?

28 04, 2018

Worker asks for reimbursement of medical bills, sets off chain of events

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:31:05+08:00April 28th, 2018|Articles, Stories|

By Sun Hanchen, based on an interview in January 2018 Some months after the accident in September 2016, Rajan (not his real name) was back at work on Jurong Island, albeit instructed by the doctor to undertake only “light duties”. One morning in April 2017, heading to his worksite, he was informed by a colleague

25 04, 2018

Employment Claims Tribunal handled 1,190 cases in first year of operations

webmaster2019-08-30T16:31:05+08:00April 25th, 2018|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, News, News Flash|

Marking the first anniversary of the new system for salary disputes, the State Courts issued a media statement on 24 April 2018 providing some statistics about the cases they handled during the first twelve months. From 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018, the Employment Claims Tribunals (ECT), a unit within the State Courts, saw

24 04, 2018

Alone in a foreign country knowing no one who can help

webmaster2019-08-30T16:31:05+08:00April 24th, 2018|Articles, Stories|

In the middle of March 2018, TWC2 got a call from a Sikh temple. They were sheltering a young woman who had come to them for help. We asked that she be sent to our office. Khushpreet (not her real name) was a first-time domestic worker, who arrived in Singapore just three weeks earlier in

10 04, 2018

A review of overtime pay and related issues

webmaster2019-08-30T16:31:05+08:00April 10th, 2018|Articles, Facts, research, analysis|

Most interns are required to do some research during their period with Transient Workers Count Too. Coupled with their exposure to casework, this is to enable them to gain an in-depth understanding of at least one facet of the many issues migrant workers are faced with. Undergraduate Wang Shimeng interned with us in December 2017

2 04, 2018

Exploitative law firms: systemic solutions needed from MOM

webmaster2019-08-30T16:31:06+08:00April 2nd, 2018|News, Our Stand|

In late March 2018, a short while after this article Two injured workers provide detailed accounts of a law firm's practices was published, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) asked for the names of the workers and law firms involved. Transient Workers Count Too declined to provide this information. As the details of that story indicated, the

30 03, 2018

“In Singapore, worker is nothing”

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:31:06+08:00March 30th, 2018|Articles, Stories|

By Philomène Franssen based on an interview in January 2018 Those words in the headline I quote from Nazrul, a disillusioned worker currently waiting for the court hearing that will handle his salary claim. Freshly arrived in Singapore in 2007 with the hope to make a decent living in order to provide for his family