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New T-shirts for sale!
Recently, TWC2 worked with Catapult Advertising to create the following series of T-shirts for sale. They come in Large and Medium sizes only and are for purchase at $15. Email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it if you wish to get one, or call 6247 7001 now!
"Catapult Advertising came up with three T-shirt designs that highlight the salary problems in TWC2's 'Debts, Delays, Deductions' report identified a year ago. They do so with humour. When we first saw them, we wondered what domestic workers would make of them, but those who saw the designs thought that they were good." - TWC2's President John Gee
Standard Contract Doesn't Fix Lack of Day Off
A regular day off for domestic workers
The Standard Contract Is Not Working: It Is Time For It To Be Made Law
On September 15th 2006, a new standard employment contract for domestic workers was due to be implemented across the whole of the employment agency industry in Singapore. Its terms had been agreed by the two accreditation bodies for agencies, the Association of Employment Agencies (Singapore) and CASETrust.
A key feature of the contract was the clause concerning time off for the worker. It gave signatories the options of agreeing that the worker should have one, two, three or four days off per month. In theory, this meant that the worker could be sure of receiving at least one day a month when she could relax and go out to spend her time as she chose.
Unfortunately, this provision was undermined by another that allowed an employer to pay a worker extra money on top of her regular wage to give up her time off.
Isolated cases? There's more than one a week
Ghosts, a special preview charity screening
On August 6th, there is a special preview screening of Nick Broomfield's GHOSTS. The film is a dramatisation of what led to the drowning of 23 Chinese migrant workers in Morecambe Bay, northern England, in February 2004. Proceeds from the ticket sales will be divided between Transient Workers Count Too, Migrant Voices and a fund for the Morecambe Bay tragedy victims' families. The screening will be followed by a discussion on the issues raised by the film, and is co-organised with the British Council and Golden Village.