{"id":5167,"date":"2012-03-06T06:18:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T06:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/beta\/mandatory-rest-days-for-migrant-domestic-workers-updates-from-singapore\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T06:18:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T06:18:43","slug":"mandatory-rest-days-for-migrant-domestic-workers-updates-from-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/mandatory-rest-days-for-migrant-domestic-workers-updates-from-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory rest days for migrant domestic workers: Updates from Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dayoffamah_300w.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-953\" src=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dayoffamah_300w.jpg\" alt=\"dayoffamah_300w\" width=\"200\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>Singapore, 05 March 2012:\u00a0The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will require a weekly rest day for migrant domestic workers, while providing employers the flexibility to compensate migrant domestic workers with extra pay if the workers agree to work on their rest day. The new weekly rest day requirement will apply to migrant domestic workers whose work permits are issued or renewed from 1 January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Migrant rights groups including MFA members in Singapore &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.home.org.sg\" target=\"_blank\">Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME)<\/a>,\u00a0Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers (TFAMW),\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twc2.org.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2)<\/a> welcome this announcement by the Ministry of Manpower. There are concerns however on the provision that days off can be surrendered in return for compensation and by mutual consent. This may leave the way open to workers being pressured to give up their days off and employers may abuse this by effectively denying the worker the weekly rest day. Migrant rights group nevertheless\u00a0noted that Singapore is a step closer towards the full recognition of domestic workers with the same rights as all other workers.<\/p>\n<p>Read the statements from and information shared by MFA members in Singapore:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/home_statement_day-off_final_2012.pdf\" rel=\"\">Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tfamw_weeklyrestday.pdf\" rel=\"\">Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers (TFAMW)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/twc2_statement_5march2012.pdf\" rel=\"\">Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore, 05 March 2012:\u00a0The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will require a weekly rest day for migrant domestic workers, while providing employers the flexibility to compensate migrant domestic workers with extra pay if the workers agree to work on their rest day. The new weekly rest day requirement will apply to migrant domestic workers whose work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,14,35],"tags":[11,122,127],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic-workers","category-news-archive","category-singapore","tag-domestic-work","tag-migrant-workers","tag-singapore"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}