An office worker paid $12,000 and comes to Singapore believing he will be a construction supervisor. Naturally, many things go wrong.
Here is a case where a worker could show us how money flowed from her Myanmar recruiter to the Singapore agency. Actually, no money flowed to the agency, even though thousands of dollars moved.
A case study of lower-skill construction workers hired on S-Passes at inflated salaries, and who then find that no such salaries are forthcoming. Any route to justice?
Singapore's skills training for migrant construction workers is a sham because the present recruitment system works against it. We propose a new model for recruitment and training.
We show evidence that strongly suggests false declaration when making IPA applications, for a worker's two successive jobs
IOM does a stock-take of a decade of efforts to eradicate recruitment fees; says government action is essential for progress. We agree.
Following Straits Times' Op-ed of 19 May 2026, the newspaper published several letters. We comment on a few of them.
A worker applied for a restaurant kitchen job and was happy to get one. Not only was he not paid properly, his documentation said this was not his job.
A longish commentary on migrant workers appeared in the Straits Times on 19 May 2026. TWC2 responded with a letter to the editor.
Three workers tell us that during the recruitment phase, they had been offered (and they accepted) a salary of $1,000 a month. But the IPA only showed $520. Any way to resolve this?
