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Platform workers rely on online platforms for income, mainly cabbies, private-hire car drivers and deliverymen.
Singapore

Work Injury Compensation Act may be applied to 'employee-like' gig workers

MOM said the new pass system is to manage potential crowding at popular locations, such as Chinatown.
Singapore

Fast approval to migrant workers' applications to visit 4 spots

The accident occurred at 1 Mandai Quarry Road, where the Home Team Tactical Centre is located.
Singapore

Migrant worker crushed to death at work site

Mr Zakir Hossain Khokan returned to Bangladesh on June 15 after working in Singapore for nearly two decades.
Singapore

Migrant worker advocate made misleading, false public posts

A $1.5 billion support package was announced on June 21.
Singapore

New $1.5b support package to help residents, businesses

Almost eight in 10 workers aged 40 to 49 were re-employed within six months.
Singapore

Over 70% of those retrenched found new jobs quickly

A file picture of a worker at a construction site. A worker died after a part of the wall he was hacking collapsed on him on June 10, 2022.
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WSH alert after worker is killed by falling wall

The stiffer penalties include the doubling of composition fines for offences observed during safety inspections.
Singapore

Stiffer penalties for companies with poor workplace safety

The worker was freed by SCDF and taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he died.
Singapore

Worker trapped under metal pipe dies

    The total number of workplace fatalities this year is now the highest number in the same period since 2016.
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    Worker dies after falling 9.5m to factory floor

    The High Court ruled it was insufficient to say the heart attack was an "injury by accident".
    Singapore

    High Court rules against compensation over man's death

    The fake e-mail that has been circulating appears to be sent from Ministry of Manpower's Labour Relations and Workplaces Division.
    Singapore

    E-mail asking workers to declare salaries is fake: MOM

    Woman jailed after maid she employed illegally at bakery lost five fingers in workplace accident
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    Woman jailed after maid lost fingers in bakery accident

    On May 25, the company appealed to MOM for its licence to be renewed, but was informed in November that the appeal was unsuccessful.
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    Maid agency fined for operating after licence expired

    The majority of employers are keen to continue flexible work arrangements even after the pandemic ends.
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    Flexible work arrangements should be permanent feature

    The clinic at Angullia Mosque in Little India is held on alternate Sundays.
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    Free aid for migrant workers at new legal clinic

    There were 10 workplace fatalities in April, bringing the total number of workplace deaths in 2022 to 20.
    Singapore

    Firms urged to take safety time-out after workplace deaths

    The worker was repositioning steel beams at 7A Neythal Road in Boon Lay when the accident occurred.
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    Worker dies after steel beam hits him on head

    Employers surveyed by MOM attributed most of the retrenchments to reorganisation or restructuring.
    Singapore

    Retrenchments hit 24-year record low in Q1 of this year: MOM

    The MOM will be conducting more inspections this quarter compared with the last.
    Singapore

    16 workplace deaths this year

    The last time the quota of migrant workers allowed in the community was raised was in March.
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    More migrant workers can take part in community visits

    Alagar Balasubramanian imposed financial demands that the women would not be able to repay if they wished to quit.
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    Entertainment club operator labour trafficked 3 women