SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Manpower is investigating 15 work pass holders working here who had declared qualifications from Manav Bharti University in their work pass applications.The Indian university in the state of Himachal Pradesh had sold 36,000 fake degrees over 11 years, the Times of India (TOI) reported earlier…

SINGAPORE - From Jan 1 next year, firms in the manufacturing sector can have only up to 18 per cent of their workforce be foreign workers on S Passes.This quota will be further cut to 15 per cent from Jan 1, 2023.  It is currently 20 per cent.When the new quotas…

SINGAPORE - When Singapore imposed the circuit breaker on April 7 last year to curb a growing number of Covid-19 cases, migrant workers were not allowed to leave their dormitories, not even to get food.After receiving a text from a friend working with the Covid-19 Migrant Support Coalition on April 8,…

The festive cheer of the Lunar New Year was shared with our foreign worker friends through the distribution of festive packs and warm greetings from Minister for Manpower Mrs Josephine Teo and Second Minister for Manpower Dr Tan See Leng during their visit to Westlite Tuas Ave 2 Quick Built…

Tighter Covid-19 measures for travellers from Vietnam, business travel pass holders entering SingaporeSINGAPORE - Visitors from Vietnam will face tighter restrictions when entering Singapore from Saturday (Feb 13) due to an increase in Covid-19 cases in the country, in the latest border measures announced on Tuesday by the Ministry of…

To further reduce the risk of transmission from newly arrived migrant workers into the workplace, the Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) has decided to extend the post-Stay-Home Notice (SHN) 7-day testing regime to all newly arrived Work Permit and S Pass workers in Construction, Marine and Process (CMP) sectors from higher-risk countries/regions1.…

Workers at a construction site in Singapore on Sep 28, 2020. (File photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)SINGAPORE: About 190 employers were found underpaying their foreign workers every year between 2015 and 2019, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said on Tuesday (Feb 2).She was responding to parliamentary questions from NCMP Leong Mun Wai (PSP) and MP Muhamad Faisal…

Employers may be less inclined to apply for EPs via the ICT route and instead advertise on MyCareersFuture.sgFOREIGN employees of multinational corporations who are posted to the company's Singapore branch as an intra-corporate transferee can no longer bring their family members with them via dependant's passes or long-term visit passes. Intra-corporate…

SINGAPORE - The Republic reported a nine-month high of 42 imported cases on Sunday night (Jan 10), more than half of whom were work permit holders who arrived from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Five of the 24 work permit holders were foreign domestic workers.The other 18 cases comprised two…

Straits Times associate editor Chua Mui Hoong's lessons from the year of the coronavirus (Home truths in the year of coronavirus, Jan 1) hit close to home for me, especially the part on the plight of migrant workers. Migrant workers belong to a side of Singapore that is often unseen. They…