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74-year-old Singaporean logistics worker dies after falling off a 1m-tall elevated platform while at work

A 74-year-old Singaporean logistics worker died on 14 Aug due to injuries…

Part-time home cleaning services to be made permanent from 1 September following increase in demand

Starting from 1 September, a scheme that allows households to get hold…

Indonesia: Government should seek international help in evacuating stranded fishing vessel crew members in Somalia, says activist

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — The Destructive Fishing Watch (DFW) urged the Indonesian government…

Rights groups offer new measures to improve well-being of migrant domestic workers in Singapore

Following the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) new measures announced last month to…

PSP’s Leong Mun Wai says interplay of Foreign Talent Policy and FTAs have provided “loose arrangement” for foreign PMETs to get job in S’pore

The interplay of the Foreign Talent Policy (FTP) and Free Trade Agreements…

TWC2 shares two incidents of employers dodging obligations to pay migrant workers’ medical bills

Migrant labour rights non-profit organisation Transient Workers Workers Count Too (TWC2) has…

69% of Malaysians want to continue working from home until COVID-19 vaccine is widely distributed: Randstad study

On Monday (16 Aug), Randstad, the world’s leading human resources solutions agency,…

Netizens slam DPM Heng Swee Keat for blaming S’poreans wanting to be “bubble wrapped”, say they seek balance for local workforce

Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Friday (13 Aug) that…

Advertisement that promotes FTAs contributions to S’pore economy fails to address public discontent with CECA

An advertisement featured in HDB lifts appears to have showcased its support…

Heng Swee Keat: Port cranes can be remotely operated by foreign tech outside SG; they don’t have to be in SG to compete with you

At a public forum organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS)…