About 5,700 workers who are required to undergo rostered routine testing have yet to do so, and will not be able to return to work…
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Lower-wage workers in Singapore hit hard by fallout of pandemic
Lower-wage workers have been hit particularly hard by the fallout of Covid-19 pandemic. Those not in professional, manager, executive and technician (PMET) jobs made up…
1 maid, 2 jobs: Maids made to clean more than one home rarely complain
For over five years, Siti (not her real name) would start her 16-hour work day at 5.30am cleaning her employer’s five-room flat on the 10th…
550 complaints of illegal deployment of maids yearly from 2017 to 2019: MOM
An average of 550 cases a year of maids being made to work illegally by their employers or household members were handled by the Ministry…
13,000 workers barred from returning to work after missing Covid-19 testing deadline
SINGAPORE – Some 13,000 workers who have yet to undergo rostered routine testing for the coronavirus as of Sunday (Sept 6) will be prevented from…
16,000 workers yet to be tested for Covid-19 by Sept 5 deadline risk being barred from work
SINGAPORE – Some 16,000 workers required to undergo rostered routine testing for Covid-19 by Saturday (Sept 5) have yet to be scheduled for it by…
224,800 workers affected by cost-cutting measures
About 6,300 employers have submitted notifications to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on their cost-cutting measures between March and July, which affected about 224,800 local…
60-year-old loses her job, then joins start-up which enrols her in professional conversion programme
SINGAPORE – Last December, Madam Becky Chang, 60, had a feeling she was about to lose her job in a shipping company. “It was a…
Retrenched workers face less stigma as Covid-19 impacts all sectors
Being retrenched still stings, but the stigma once associated with it is slowly dissipating, as layoffs become increasingly commonplace amid the worsening global economy due…