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Employment Agency Fees: The Hidden Cost of Being A Migrant Worker | Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre

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Employment Agency Fees: The Hidden Cost of Being A Migrant Worker

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COVID-19 Situation for Migrant Workers in Singapore

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COVID-19 Situation for Migrant Workers in Singapore

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COVID-19: Shedding Light on the Plight and Laws Regulating Migrant Worker Dormitories in Singapore - NUS Law

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Song Yihang National University of Singapore Faculty of Law Since the onset of this pandemic, migrant workers have accounted for almost 90% of the over 60,000 cases confirmed in Singapore. The first wave of cases in early 2020 caused the government to put all dormitories on “lockdown” – restricting…

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Living City: Migrant workers find refuge in Rowell Road shophouse

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The second floor of a shophouse at Rowell Road is a hive of activity seven days a week. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Lack of community policing or alcohol, the major contributing cause to Little India Riot?

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On Monday (5 June), Yeoh Lam Keong, Former GIC Chief Economist and academic at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), in response to an article about how budget cuts to UK security might have a part in the recent terrorist attacks, posted his views on how inadequate community policing had played a […]

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Read your given article, and write a short reflection under the article answering the following questions:

1. What are 3 interesting things that you learnt from the article?
2. What are 2 questions that you have about the topic in this article?
3. What is 1 way in which this topic could affect your life?

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1. Migrant workers thinks the police is being unfair, the bus running over the migrant workers, and the migrant workers saw the whole situatuion wrongly.

2. Why were there barely cameras?

was the bus driver drunk?

3. To think before u act

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The efforts made by the Rowell Road Shophouse to help migrant workers is really touching.

Not only do they offer free food, they also provide opportunities for migrant workers to improve their well being and let loose after a hard day’s work.

There are some migrant workers that are unable to get paid and work after getting injured from work.

Questions

1. How do they manage the funds to run this facility?

2. Are there any other plans to branch this concept out to other areas?

I feel very optimistic as I read about such contributions to the community, knowing that there will always be someone making an effort to make migrant workers feel more comfortable.

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1. They have alot of money just to work in Singapore and the funds allocation are not given nor explicit. I also find that they showed the thought process. The total cost of Mr Rakibul’s loan was also able to buy 3000 cups of bubble tea.

2. Why did they come to Singapore knowing that you have to pay? Why are employment fees enforced?

3. To let us respect them since they have a lot of burdens.

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1. -The level 2 make shift into different kinds of places to fit the needs of the migrant works

-it could take months or years for cases to resolve

-melting pots of different cultures

2. -why must one room be makeshift into many places

-how do they find the budget

3.how people view the migrant workers

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3 things that we learnt from the article

Migrant workers are required to pay a huge sum of money just to work in Singapore thus them sacrificing many things in return only to be able to spend a mere 7 dollar a day.

Migrant workers sacrifice their education just to get a job in Singapore.

Migrant workers work long hours and lack sleep thus it tales a toll on their physical and mental health

2 questions

Why do still go to Singapore to work even if they do not profit much

Is there a way to stop migrant worker abuse

1 way this topic affects us

That we are very fortunate compared to them

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Group 8: chloe Lee, Shernice,  Venus, ethan

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Group 8: chloe Lee, Shernice,  Venus, ethan

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alcohol is actually a major contributor to the Little India Riots

among the first responders only one person could speak Tamil

The police in Singapore is actually understaffed

Why didn’t the police deploy more officers that spoke Tamil?

Why were the perpetrators so heavily under the influence?

Reading about immigrants’ stories helped us see the world through different eyes people who may have fled war, chased dreams, or started from scratch in a new country. It builds empathy, understanding, and compassion.

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3 interesting things we learnt

They live in crowded and unsanitary dormitories.

They get infected easily because of the unsanitary dormitories.

The employment of foreign manpower(work passes) regulations were amended to require migrant workers( holding work permit and passes to be confined in their dormitories.

2 questions

Why do they have to live in crowded dorms?

How was the problem of living conditions solved?

1 way this topic could affect our life

We learn to treat people fairly regardless of background