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This report profiles the services rendered by TWC2 Helpline, its operational capacity and the types of complaints and enquiries received through the helpline. It also highlights the resources required for the helpline to improve the quality of services it renders and its capacity. 

In November 2003, The Working Committee 2 produced the draft of a bill on foreign domestic workers and passed to the Ministry of Manpower for consideration.

Transient Workers Count Too's forerunner was The Working Committee 2. In preparation for its launch in March 2003, five sub-groups of volunteer researchers were formed. Their role was to research some of the basic issues raised by the employment of foreign domestic workers in Singapore and then to present papers that would provide a foundation for The Working Committee 2 campaign in 2003.

Edited by John Gee and Elaine Ho; published by Select Books. Usual bookshop price in Singapore: $19.95. Also available at TWC2.

This report summarises research that TWC2 undertook in 2006 on salary issues for foreign domestic workers. It was based chiefly on the results of a survey of domestic workers in the street as well as focus group discussions. It identified serious problems faced by the women, and reflected in the report's title: workers begin their employment with a large burden of debt; they are often paid late and it is not unusual for employers to impose arbitrary or unreasonable deductions from salaries that are already at a very low level.

The full report is available in printed format at TWC2's office for $10.