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Duterte’s new problem is an Arabian nightmare
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After two years working in Saudi Arabia, Arman Abelarde packed his bags in September and went home to the Philippines, joining an exodus of foreign workers who have been a major source of labor in the Arab Gulf for half a century. Abelarde made panel...
46 workers have died in workplace accidents in S’pore in first 8 months of 2016
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On July 1, 2016, the number of workers who died at their workplace was 42. Within five weeks on Aug. 8, the number of fatalities increased to 46. That was when a construction worker was killed in a workplace accident in Tuas that day. According to...
Indian workers made false declaration under duress replied by Kgoodchild @ Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:58:51 +0800
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Four Indian men who were found guilty of providing false information to the Singapore Ministry of Manpower insist that they had no choice but to sign documents declaring their income to be 3 times their actual salary. The four men, who we have chosen...
Good guys raise $10,000 for foreign worker who wasn’t able to claw back unpaid wages |
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You may or may not have seen this story that kind of went under the radar last week: Click image to go to article It told the really unfortunate story of Islam Rafiqul, a migrant worker whose employer would not — and was eventually revealed that he was...
Social Justice Movements in Singapore
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In Singapore, what you see is not what you get. Under its glitzy first-world façade lies a record of human rights so poor one would be taken aback at the jarring dissonance. It is at once a country boasting a US$274.7 billion GDP as well...

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No popping of champagne after salary claim victory

Lutfor (not his real name) at left speaking with TWC2’s Alex Au 14815 In January, we wrote about a worker (Lutfor) whose salary claim hit a road bump at the Employment Claims Tribunal (ECT). See Court tells worker his TADM-prepared claims calculations...
Occupational hazards that come charging out

Singaporeans are no strangers to the wildlife on our island. Some animals are better favoured than others, of course. While the adorable otters have become icons on the Kallang river, other animals like the infamous ‘uwu’ birds (Koels) and wild boars...
When data reaches its use-by date

The above video was taken by a TWC2 volunteer as she was on her way to TWC2’s Cuff Road Project in the Little India area. The Cuff Road Project is TWC2’s programme providing free meals to migrant workers with salary, injury or other cases, who are left...
Where I stay is a dump, but it’s still better than…

Rosol stops by our meal program with an update, after a shopping trip to Mustafa. Many of us indulge in a spot of retail therapy on rare days off, and migrant workers are no exception. Rosol (not his real name) arrives at our meal program restaurant...
Injured workers’ ordeal: tar pits

Until October 2019, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) processed the Work Injury Compensation (WIC ) claims. Now that this has been taken over by insurance companies, the process is supposed to be quicker, with MOM stepping in only when necessary, as shown...

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Salary & deduction – Page 6 – TWC2

webmaster2020-08-15T21:46:57+08:00August 15th, 2020|Articles, Stories| How four workers have been affected by the suspension of many actvities during the Covid-19 lockdown from early April to early Ju...