Elfrida Julia Bani, a domestic worker from Waitabula, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia lost her brother in a factory fire on September and desperately wanted to go back to her hometown to attend his funeral. However, she was unable to make it home to see her brother for the last time as the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) detained her passport and …
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The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) expressed its concern over ‘disguised retrenchments’, a trend to disguise the intent of job termination by the company to circumvent existing labour laws. Mr Patrick Tay, NTUC assistant secretary-general, who is also a Member of Parliament for West Coast GRC, said last week that he was unhappy about such disguised layoffs because firms get …
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Nominated Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Kok Heng Leun had earlier asked the Minister for Manpower at Parliament about statistics on abused foreign domestic workers and those who abuse people whom they take care of, in Singapore for each year from 2014 to 2015. He asked the following questions: What is the number of foreign domestic helpers who have been abused …
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Singapore Bus Academy (SBA), which was officially opened on Monday (17 October), will conduct a standardised centralised training to complement the existing training efforts of individual operators to ensure a consistent service delivery standard across the bus industry workforce. Starting from 31 October 2016, the first batch of about 30 trainees will take the Enhanced Vocational Licence Training Programme, which …
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The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has recently posted a video of Mr Lim Swee Say's most recent Parliamentary speech titled "How are we managing the inflow of foreign manpower?" and many Singaporeans have viewed the video through its sponsored social media campaign on Facebook. Mr Lim commented during his parliamentary speech that the policy on the foreign manpower must be well …
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Where job happiness indices are concerned, Singapore ranks last when compared with her six neighbours, a survey by JobStreet.com has found. The Philippines comes in first place, with Indonesia in second and Thailand in third. Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore take the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh places respectively. Office location, good colleagues, and company reputation are important drivers …
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By Benjamin Cheah On Sunday afternoon, a group of advocates and lawyers hosted a forum on labour issues at Conclave. Titled Strike Out!, it was conducted as a follow-up to an earlier forum in 9 December 2012 and focused on the recent strike conducted by Chinese bus drivers formerly working in SMRT. Migrant workers are not commodities Mr Sinapan Samydorai, …
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