Tag Archives: foreign workers

On the way to work at ECP , my chain snap causing me to go over the bar and face plant . Luckily i got wear a helmet , manage to walk away with a few abrasions on my elbow and my knee .

After lighting struck a neighbourhood in Clementi, a fire consumed the roof of a bungalow. On Thursday (Nov 10) evening, after the roof caught fire, neighbours tried to alert the occupants of the house in Sunset Place but to no avail. Foreign workers who were working at another house climbed over the gate to alert its occupants.

The Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) caught a 30 year-old Bangladeshi national who overstayed in Singapore while he tried to swim from Singapore to Malaysia.

Employers pay little attention to the hygiene, safety and cleanliness of workers’ living quarters on construction sites due to the transient nature of their stay there. It is also more convenient and cheaper to house them in these sites than to accommodate them in purpose built dormitories which provide better conditions. In the worst cases, they are made to live in buildings which are still under construction. Inadequate drainage results in pools of stagnant water forming whenever it rains, turning these work sites into breeding grounds for mosquitos. Cases of dengue outbreaks and Chikugunya have been reported before in the past and they usually occur in areas where migrant workers live. Therefore, the latest revelation that the majority of affected victims are migrant construction workers is not surprising.

I have been jobless for 2 month, while going through advertisement over the web, i found a few posting that make me feel very disappointed. Why has our society accepting foreign talent more than pure Singaporean instead? Furthermore, i manage to see a few big agency such as "Achieve Group" & "MCI Career Services Pte Ltd" have a few posting with requirement asking for "SPM" qualification. What is our country turning into? There are also posting that state down "Chinese/Mandarin Speaking environment". We are a multi racial country, such requirements are very unfair to people who fall under the race of "Non Chinese". There is another posting stating down that a Jewellery shop is looking for a sales assistant in a ladies environment? Does it mean that as a male I'm unable to apply for this job? This posting show that there isn't much transparency and sensitivities in Singapore Employment Act.

We received this heart breaking letter from a foreign Bangladeshi worker. He and his fellow workers were rudely abused by a Singaporean auntie after they were found huddled under a single umbrella outside her home because they had no shelter in their work site nearby.

I was at Bendemeer mall this morning.. This ugly Singaporean started screaming at her maid asking her to cut her hair.. citing that she is still under her payroll, she should obey her regardless of what.. calling her names like "idiot, just go cut your hair and stop wasting my time!"

This afternoon, I presented letters of commendation to two of our Tanjong Pagar Town Council cleaners, Nurul Islam and Sentu, for their honesty in reporting and returning $45,000 worth of jewellery to the rightful owner. Mr Sentu has worked in Singapore for 6 years and earns a monthly salary of $700 which he uses to support his family of 10 back home. Although there were gold, diamonds and other jewellery in the box, Mr Sentu and Nurul Islam were honest and returned the property to the rightful owner.

The news about Singaporeans beating up two Malaysian Mechanic went viral and Malaysia's social media pleads singaporean not to bully Malaysian working in Singapore. In the end, the lady Sharon Seet who attacks the Mechanic with an umbrella is also a Malaysian!

A reader sent us this photo and shared a strange incident where 2 PRC workers were caught sleeping out in the open beside an abandoned BMW car for 2 nights in a row. The photo was taken at the foot of our reader's HDB block.