Asia Business Law Journal, Singapore, 22 March 2019 - The Singapore Corporate Counsel Association (SCCA) group Peers organized a charity drive in December for local migrant workers. The event took place on 22 December 2018 at the 79 Robinson Road construction site, and involved various in-house legal counsel and their friends stepping forward to distribute festive season gifts, which were specially gathered and gift-wrapped, to almost 500 migrant construction workers.
Herald Malaysia Online, Philippines, 22 March 2019 - Emer de Lina, 59, expected that when she returned to the Philippines, there would be improved roads and basic services, as well as reasonably stable prices for necessities.
The Conversation, Australia, 22 March 2019 - Australia’s Fairwork Commission has so far this year examined more than a dozen cases of wage theft. Those cases involve hundred of workers and millions of dollars in underpayments.
OZY, China, 21 March 2019 - The world’s most powerful asset managers may be establishing a foothold in Chinese stocks, but retail investors still hold considerable sway over this year’s best-performing major equity market.
New Straits Times, Singapore, 18 March 2019 - In dorms on Singapore’s fringes or employers’ backrooms, a growing number of migrant workers are using poetry to shed light on their hidden struggles and reconnect with their roots.
The News Lens, USA, 15 March 2019 - Taiwan’s foreign workers remain vulnerable to “exploitation” and “significant debt burdens” and its Ministry of Labor has decreased its inspections of employers, according to a human rights report released on Wednesday by the U.S. State Department.
New Bloom, Taiwan, 15 March 2019 - THE DEATH of three Vietnamese migrant workers in a warehouse fire in early February should remind of the unsafe working conditions which continue to face migrant workers in Taiwan. The fire broke out at a warehouse owned by the Kerry TJ Logistics Company in Taoyuan’s Guanyin District on February 7th, killing three. The Kerry TJ Logistics Company is a warehousing and storage company.
Malaysiakini, Malaysia, 13 March 2019 - The policy to abolish the services of more than 100 outsourcing companies in recruiting and managing migrant workers would normally be welcome news for civil society organisations such as Tenaganita, which have consistently called for outsourcing companies to be banned or at least to be much more stringently regulated.
Malaysiakini, Malaysia, 11 March 2019 - Kuala Lumpur saw hundreds of people gather for the annual Women’s March over the weekend and, predictably enough, this drew derision from some quarters due to certain perceived abhorrent acts.
Global Voices, China, 11 March 2019 - Foreign domestic workers contribute HK$98.9 billion (US$12.6 billion dollars) to the city’s economy, making up 3.9 percent of the GDP, according to a study released on March 5.
The Sun Daily, Malaysia, 11 March 2019 - A fire destroyed 30 container makeshift homes of about 100 migrant workers here today, leaving them homeless.
The Pioneer, India, 11 March 2019 - In its current form, the draft is an improvement from the 1983 Act but the current paradigm demands a wider and thorough approach. We need a Comprehensive Migration Management Act that should address every aspect of the exploitation of migrant workers
Today Online, Singapore, 10 March 2019 - The migrant workers who gathered outside the site of the old Central Provident Fund building last week were waiting to talk to their employer about their salary claims and were not staging a protest, the police said.
The Independent Singapore, Singapore, 9 March 2019 - On March 6, a group of migrant labourers assembled in front of the old Central Provident Fund building to protest Stargood Construction’s failure to pay them their salaries.
World of Buzz, Malaysia, 9 March 2019 - Every time we see migrant workers on their way to work at a construction site, they always appear cheerful — No matter how hard their tasks for the day will be or how grossly underpaid they are.
