What will it take to ban use of lorries to ferry migrant workers

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Do also check out CAPE’s Activism Archive issue on the Day-Off Movement for Foreign Domestic Workers and an Asia Research Institute article tracking the ten years it took for the earlier weekly rest day policy to be instituted in 2016.

References

  1. https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/topic?reportid=021_20080526_S0007_T0007
  2. https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/topic?reportid=033_20090818_S0007_T0004
  3. https://www.mot.gov.sg/news/details/sms-amy-khor-s-speech-on-adjournment-motion-on-the-transportation-of-workers-in-lorries
  4. https://www.mot.gov.sg/news/details/joint-response-to-media-queries-on-the-transportation-of-workers-on-lorries
  5. https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/topic?reportid=024_20111020_S0008_T0001
  6. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gw5yzmBPCHDpSMbdillcD5luTWAno_fp/view
  7. https://twc2.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Right_to_rest_v15.pdf
  8. https://twc2.org.sg/2019/08/20/maid-to-last-foreign-domestic-workers-access-to-weekly-rest-days/
  9. https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/98/4/1695/5523635
  10. https://www.mom.gov.sg/newsroom/press-releases/2021/0722-better-support-for-mdws
  11. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/jobs/fixed-uninterrupted-rest-time-for-maids-on-rest-days-imposes-rigidity-on-households-mom
  12. https://twc2.org.sg/2021/07/24/rule-change-domestic-workers-to-enjoy-one-compulsory-day-off-a-month/
  13. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/myanmar-maid-piang-ngaih-don-gaiyathiri-murugayan-jailed-1952766
  14. https://arimoop.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/how-domestic-workers-won-a-day-off-in-singapore/
  15. According to Migrant Death Map:
  • At least 25 migrant workers killed or injured in lorry-related accidents between 2001 and 2007 including:
    • Two workers died within a week of each other in May 2006
    • 1 worker killed and 12 injured after they were flung out of lorry in 2007
  • 3 Chinese nationals killed after overloaded lorry overturned in 2010
  • At least 12 deaths and 46 injuries from lorry-related accidents between February 2012 to August 2013
  • 2 workers killed and 25 injured in two separate accidents in April 2021

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