Advocates have decried how difficult it can be for temporary foreign workers to get vaccines, despite cramped living spaces and workplaces that make it hard to prevent transmission of the virus.
Advocates have decried how difficult it can be for temporary foreign workers to get vaccines, despite cramped living spaces and workplaces that make it hard to prevent transmission of the virus.
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As we know, the hospitality and horticultural industries are currently lobbying the government hard to allow easier access to migrant workers.
We are told that these industries are experiencing chronic labour shortages and that without access to migrant workers, restaurants and cafes will be forced to close and farms will lose valuable crops.
One interesting aspect of these claims is that the simplest solution to so-called ‘labour shortages’ – offering better pay and conditions to attract local workers – is never considered.
Another is that the calls for migrant workers is coming on the back of ongoing exploitation and wage theft by these very same industries.
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Businesses offering sham contracts are leaving migrant staff fighting for crumbs at the bottom of the employment chain, an inquiry looking into Australia s gig economy has been told.
Representatives from the Migrant Workers Centre slammed conditions for migrant workers at the Senate inquiry on Tuesday.
In its submission to the committee, the organisation said workers were being offered independent contracts that don’t impose regular working hours while ensuring contractors are denied award rates and a minimum wage.
Annual leave, personal leave and redundancy pay are not offered either, according to the submission. Applicants with an ABN are actively sought over others, so that they can be offered the independent contracts.
February 26, 2021
SINGAPORE (CNA) – Three of the 10 workers who suffered burns in a fire at an industrial building in Tuas have died, said Commissioner for Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Silas Sng yesterday.
Another five are in critical condition, while two workers have been discharged, added Sng.
Preliminary investigations have found that the accident at 32E Tuas Avenue 11 was caused by “a combustible dust explosion”, said Mr Sng, who is also Director of the Manpower Ministry’s Occupational Safety and Health Division.
The site of the fire at an industrial building in Tuas, Singapore. CNA
He added that the dust was in the form of potato starch powder, a material used for production by the company at the site, Stars Engrg.