Employment agents, agent fees

16 05, 2015

Bangladeshi construction worker fined $40,000; acted as unlicensed employment agent

2019-08-30T16:32:31+08:00May 16th, 2015|News, News Flash|

For a payment of $3,000, Ahmead Rubel, 28, found a job for fellow Bangladeshi, Jabed, to work as a construction worker in Nanjing Minglu Construction Engineering Co. Ltd. For conducting employment agency activities without a valid employment agency licence, Rubel -- himself a construction worker -- was fined $40,000 in default four months' imprisonment, reported

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9 02, 2015

Korea’s regulatory system for migrant workers offers many features worth emulating

2019-08-30T16:32:54+08:00February 9th, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis|

When an employer in South Korea needs to fill a position with a foreign worker, he has to apply to the central government's Job Center. This state body will provide the employer with three shortlisted workers and the employer has to choose from among them. When Kim Misun, executive director of We Friends, an NGO

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18 01, 2015

With each job here, Saide gets poorer

2019-08-30T16:32:54+08:00January 18th, 2015|Articles, Stories|

By Lindene Cleary His first job didn't even last a year, losing out on unpaid salaries. His second job lasted barely a week, with him having to foot hospital bills. His personal finances are awash in red ink. We all suffer from accidents and bad luck from time to time. We miss the bus, we

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14 01, 2015

Deeply in debt, Musfiqur stays cheerful

2019-08-30T16:32:54+08:00January 14th, 2015|Articles, Stories|

By Ashley Frois We're barely under the eaves. Rain, like troubles, pours down mere inches from our seats. Everything is damp. Two seats away and drier, a fellow volunteer is interviewing another construction worker, Rahman Sadequr. That worker is speaking morosely of his money problems. My interviewee, Musfiqur (pictured above), is strangely upbeat. He too

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3 01, 2015

The death loan

2019-08-30T16:32:54+08:00January 3rd, 2015|Articles, Stories|

By Seema Punwani "I cannot go back! If I go back I die. I die". Rahman keeps repeating in his broken English. His friend who is kindly acting as a translator tries to calm him down and entreats him to explain his predicament in detail. And so begins Rahman's story -- sadly not very unlike

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15 12, 2014

John Gee in Straits Times: A win-win way to help injured foreign workers

2019-08-30T16:32:55+08:00December 15th, 2014|Media Coverage, News, Our Stand|

This is the opinion piece by John Gee of Transient Workers Count Too, published in the Straits Times, 3 December 2014. ---- A win-win way to help injured foreign workers The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is considering outsourcing the inspection of workplaces to counter the illegal employment of foreign workers, a task that currently involves

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1 12, 2014

Over the years, migrant workers have faced ‘deteriorating conditions’ — John Gee

2019-08-30T16:32:56+08:00December 1st, 2014|Articles, Happenings, News, Our Stand|

At a symposium organised by the Asia Research Institute, TWC2 head of research John Gee said that whilst globally, there had never been better protection in law for migrants' rights, yet in many respects, their actual position was going backwards. Even in Singapore, he felt there has been progress, but placement costs represent one area in which

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22 11, 2014

A visit to a skills training centre in Bangladesh

2024-04-12T17:33:00+08:00November 22nd, 2014|Articles, Stories|

A visit to the Asea Trading International Singapore Skills Centre in Tangail District of Bangladesh began with a conversation with the managing director Mr. Md Anisur Rahman. He proudly boasted that his centre hosts about 100 men at a time offering training in such skills as welding, electrical wiring, waterproofing, pipefitting and installing acoustical ceilings.

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