Transfer

5 11, 2018

Transfer jobs for salary claimants and a minister’s bureaucratese

webmaster2019-08-30T16:30:46+08:00November 5th, 2018|Articles, Stories|

For several months in late 2017 and early 2018, we puzzled over a statement by the then-Minister for Manpower Lim Swee Say that in the first half of 2017, only about 600 of foreign workers with salary claims indicated that they wished to find new employment (see footnote 1). We felt that 600 was an

8 10, 2018

Arrivals and change in vocation of Bangladeshi workers

webmaster2019-08-30T16:30:47+08:00October 8th, 2018|Articles, Facts, research, analysis|

After 2015, new arrivals of first-time Bangladeshi workers appear to have fallen off quite dramatically -- this was the main finding of a study done in August and September 2018. Interviews were conducted with 106 Bangladeshi workers and each was asked the year of his first arrival in Singapore. We found unusually few who first

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