Employment agents, agent fees
19
07, 2025
Laundromat city
Construction worker Domog faces a host of problems, of which his agent fee is not top of mind, but nonetheless we ask him to detail the payments he has had to make.
3
07, 2025
“If you complain, we will kill you”
Employers abused the Training Employment Pass scheme to hire cheap day labour; now hear it from the worker's perspective: distress, helplessness and financial disaster.
12
06, 2025
Scams and substitutions, case #3 of 3
Another day, another scam. This time, it involves the Training Employment Pass. This case suggests lax controls and oversight at MOM. But when real individuals lose big money, something has to be done.
10
05, 2025
Management executives washing dishes
In quick succession, many cases that looked like a new type of job scam surfaced. Agents and employers appear to be exploiting weaknesses in scrutiny and vetting in MOM's IPA process. Victims come to TWC2 one after another.
16
04, 2025
Honeypot for illegal agents
Government policy is that migrant workers with valid claims against their employers will be allowed to look for new jobs with first being repatriated, but how do they find new jobs?
28
03, 2025
Several cases of forgery of crucial MOM document
A critical document is issued by MOM in PDF format, but nowadays, scammers have the skills to create forgeries. Prospective workers lose thousands of dollars.
3
02, 2025
Work permit holder has never met his boss, directed by agent to work here and there
Despite having worked 15 months, a foreign worker has not met his boss; it's his agent who gives him work and pays his salary. The arrangement smells fishy.
28
01, 2025
Faruk’s career journey and how much he has paid to agents along the way
Agents earn huge sums off the backs of migrant workers from Bangladesh coming to work in Singapore. Do these agents contribute to our economy?
24
11, 2024
Dinesh and Venish fall victim to a (made-in-Singapore?) recruitment scam
A message came into TWC2's help centre, telling us about a fake IPAs and how two workers in India paid money and were victims of a scam. Why are IPAs so easy to forge?
14
11, 2024
Sometimes, there is light
Despite great efforts at TWC2, workers don't often get full satisfaction over their grievances. And then when we least expect it, things turn out right.