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Even GLCs are cutting older workers’ pay?
Jul. 2 | Leong Sze Hian - “Singapore Airlines (SIA), SIAEC (SIA Engineering) and all other SIA-affiliated companies practise 10 per cent across-the-board pay cut for all employees the moment they turn 60 years old,” Ms Jennifer Tan wrote to the Straits Times...
Economy recovering, but labour statistics getting worse?
Dec. 15 | Leong Sze Hian According to the Ministry of Manpower’s Labour Market Third Quarter 2009 Report, released on 15 December, Singapore’s real GDP grew by 0.6% over the year in Q3 09, after three consecutive quarters of contraction. However, long-term...
Room for more, but at what cost?
Sep. 16 | While Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave students much reassurance during this year’s NTU Ministerial Forum, transient workers, on the other hand, are dehumanised as mere cogs in a machine. Terence Lee / Deputy Editor IMAGINE a gathering of Singaporeans,...
Legal recourse for foreign workers
Jun. 16 | Jonathan Koh / Reporter Wallace Woon/Photographer Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME’s) opening of its new resource center and legal helpdesk promises to give the pursuit of justice for migrant workers a more forceful legal bite. 13...
Help for workers over two years is miniscule compared to Temasek and GIC’s losses
Jun. 7 | The Government has spent over $1.1 billion from 2006 to 2008 helping low wage Singaporeans . Ministry of Manpower
Worker assaulted by employer outside MOM building, and possibly to be repatriated
May. 15 | Andrew Loh Note: The following report has been edited to reflect more accurately what had transpired in the case of Asmad Kadir. This is because of clarification the writer has obtained with his sources. Asmad Kadir (not his real name), who is owed some...
Comparing abuse of foreign workers with…
Apr. 15 | Yes, the workers highlighted in Alphonsus’ photo essay blog entry were pitiable, but there are people suffering the world over just because they work illegally and get caught for it. In my sister’s case, she wasn’t even an illegal worker...
5 Minutes with… Leong Sze Hian on the economy and jobs
Apr. 3 | TOC asks financial expert and analyst, Mr Leong Sze Hian, to help make sense of the latest slew of statistics from the Ministry of Manpower. TOC: We’ve been bombarded with government statistics lately on the state of the economy. In simple terms, how...
Gan Kim Yong’s new committee
Apr. 3 | A new steering committee on foreign workers should consider wider reforms to protect rights of foreign workers Yesterday’s edition of the Straits Times published a low-key article about the activities of an inter-ministerial steering committee chaired...
MOM takes action against illegal lodging for foreign workers
Mar. 26 | Andrew Loh MOM’s actions comes several weeks before minister’s visit to new “up-market” dormitory’s opening In a press release on 25 March, the Ministry of Manpower said it conducted two nationwide operations on 16 foreign workers’ dormitories...
The men who lived in the containers
Mar. 12 | Story and picture by Deborah Choo For 14 workers, formerly employed by Ocean Marine Engineering, being made to live in containers was perhaps the least of their problems. These workers have since been unemployed, and are now struggling on their own. When...
Men in containers
Mar. 12 | Story and pictures by Damien Chng Last Saturday, 7th March 2009, Mohamed Ismail brought me and my two companions on a tour of his dormitory. Mohamed is a Bangladeshi worker with shipyard firm, Ocean Marine. We were taken to a place passed a forest...
Jobless migrant workers protest in Singapore again
Feb. 27 | Excerpts from Reuters: “We don’t want to go back to Bangladesh. We take loan, we cannot pay, we die,” said Rahman, who gave up his farming job in Bangladesh and took a loan of S$7000 from money lenders back home to pay an agent fee to...
Mohamed Kamaluddin
Jan. 21 | Andrew Loh (Additional reporting by Deborah Choo) *Visit Migrants Workers Singapore for consolidated news reports and articles about migrant workers. All that most Singaporeans know about Mohamed Kamaluddin, 28, is that he is the Bangladeshi worker...
MOM to meet with employer of stranded foreign workers
Dec. 20 | The following is the latest update by the good-hearted Singaporean (GHS) who’s been helping out and keeping tab on the situation with the 179 stranded Bangladeshi workers. Read his earlier update here. TOC thanks GHS for providing us with the updates. I...
