More help for foreign workers....
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/migrant-workers-centre-expanding-to-help/672426.html
SINGAPORE: The Migrant Workers' Centre is expanding operations to help more foreign workers in Singapore.
By 2014, it will have a larger head office, a Geylang branch and a help centre for migrant fishermen.
According to the Manpower Ministry, there are close to 1.1 million rank-and-file foreign workers in Singapore as of December 2012, not counting employment pass holders.
The Migrant Workers' Centre says the number seeking help is growing.
Yeo Guat Kwang, chairman of Migrant Workers' Centre, said: "We were helping about 1,200 a year in the beginning. Now we help about 1,500 workers. With some of the recent incidents, I think there is greater awareness of some of these dispute resolutions and what we can do to help the workers."
Cases like the illegal strike by SMRT bus drivers from China last year have highlighted disputes between foreign workers and their employers.
The Migrant Workers' Centre says its key objective is to make sure those who need help get it early.
By year end, the centre will have a new, larger head office along Serangoon Road, catering to Indian and Bangladeshi workers.
The existing Migrant Workers' Centre on Rangoon Road will continue operations till early next year.
On top of the services it is already providing, Channel NewsAsia understands the new centre will also have a temporary shelter that can house up to 12 workers.
And in January next year, a second branch will open in Geylang, closer to the workers from China living there.
A Seafarer's Welfare Centre will open at the Jurong Fishery Port in the second half of 2014 to help migrant fishermen who currently do not have easy access to help on employment-related issues.
The centre is also working with authorities to pilot a job placement scheme for workers who are stranded and jobless in Singapore - either due to pay disputes or pending injury claims.
Mr Yeo said: "It's important also for us to understand the problem - the problem that workers have to stay here is because they still have disputes pending.
"It is important for us not only to just ask MOM to expedite the process, but at the same time to provide them with shelter and at the same time, see how we can help them have a temporary job for them to tide over the difficult time."
Mr Yeo said the job placement scheme can start as soon as relevant cases come up.
Currently, only those who are prosecution witnesses in the Manpower Ministry's investigations are allowed to find work in the country.
- CNA/ir
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of course the pap will look after them, they are so precious to PAP. Foreigners are much more precious to PAP than locals.
PAP is giving more help to foreigners than locals. PAP kiam cho!
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L lah, the rice bowls of foreigners more important than locals. When PAP and PAP people help people of singaporea look for jobs they are full of greviances, painting so bad pictures of locals . Where foreigners are concerned, they are so willing to help foreigners look for jobs with all their hearts. You ought to be out of parliament, PAP.
Never come across any govt in the world who is all the way for foreigners and care so much less for own citizens. PAP is damn low class political party . LEE hsien Loong is one big liar. S
Vote PAP out!
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The PAP govt care less or don't care about our very own local workers. sau zi nghau choat ng nghua yup, bloody traitor of their own citizens.
This kind of govt can be thrown away.
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yeah it's very funny,helping foreigners to take away our rice bowl!
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
yeah it's very funny,helping foreigners to take away our rice bowl!
This is ç½ªå½ of PAP, they are so cruel , so evil . If anyone does nasty things to someone who has not done that person wrong, this is evil.
In this case, we have done nothing to deserve such evil treatment from PAP.
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
yeah it's very funny,helping foreigners to take away our rice bowl!
these are the people mostly in construction and other hard labour jobs. If they take away your rice bowl then you are indeed the one who need helps. Join them.
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it,s not don,t want,but employers don,t want us!it,s the govt policies,not our fault
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
it,s not don,t want,but employers don,t want us!it,s the govt policies,not our fault
they have to be "screwed up" to carry out their agenda.
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Originally posted by sgdiehard:
these are the people mostly in construction and other hard labour jobs. If they take away your rice bowl then you are indeed the one who need helps. Join them.
Is it? I don't see any info there that states this??
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Originally posted by mlmersrlosers:
Is it? I don't see any info there that states this??
so what do you see? The foreign CEOs, fund managers, engineers....??
"a Geylang branch and a help centre for migrant fishermen."
"1.1 million rank-and-file foreign workers in Singapore as of December 2012, not counting employment pass holders."
"the centre will have a new, larger head office along Serangoon Road, catering to Indian and Bangladeshi workers."
"a second branch will open in Geylang, closer to the workers from China living there."
"A Seafarer's Welfare Centre will open at the Jurong Fishery Port in the second half of 2014 to help migrant fishermen who currently do not have easy access to help on employment-related issues."
You competing with these people in Serangoon Road and Geylang?
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i took lunch at Chai Chee,also surrounded by Filipinos.i thought this placd only locals ard!