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?
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.
Agents earn huge sums off the backs of migrant workers from Bangladesh coming to work in Singapore. Do these agents contribute to our economy?
A manager goes to prison for taking kickbacks from migrant workers. The impact on workers who had to pay was terrible. As positive a step this is, a far bigger issue contines to need attention.
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?
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.
We have a law that says the In-Principle Approval in its entirety must reach the foreign worker 3 days before he leaves for Singapore. Now we have a case study where it didn't. How did MOM respond?
A worker shows us a document wherein his employer had declared that the worker did not pay any recruitment fees or costs. Then the worker tells us what he had to pay.
An international construction company is facing claims in a French court over allegations of forced labour, etc, related to its projects in Qatar. Watch out: the issues alleged are common in Singapore firms too.
The back story of Jahirul's journey to Singapore is even worse than the Part 1 story of being assaulted by his boss. Uncomfortable questions arise about the Singapore "system".
