11 SECTORS As noted in the two previous JWT reports, the construction sector continued to account for the largest proportion of cases of wage theft among migrant workers at 1322 cases in total. The cases increased from 657 during the reporting period of the previous report. > This is followed by 328 cases in domestic work (where female migrants were disproportionately affected), manufacturing sector at 260 cases, hospitality sector at 163 cases, office staff at 147 cases and the fishing sector at 108 cases. > Other sectors include transportation (75), sanitation (70), retail (65), ‘other’ occupations 16 (30) and tradespersons (14), medical, agricultural, mining, plantation workers, etc. > We see that there has been significant improvement in engagement with the JFWT platform by MFA members from Report 1 and 2. Some sectors that have seen notable improvement in data collection include fishing, domestic work and construction. > Within the data, certain sectors such as the gig economy, agriculture, mining were typically INCREASE OF CASES REGISTERED PER SECTOR 350 300 NUMBER OF CASES 250 200 150 100 50 0 Report 1 Report 2 Report 3 67 145 260 Domestic Work 31 115 328 Hospitality 108 138 163 Fishing 20 38 108 Sanitation 29 54 70 Transport 52 64 75 Retail 8 45 65 Manufacturing 16 Workers in the gig economy (such as food delivery), beauty workers (hairdressers and salon workers), salespersons in small-scale grocery stores as well as unskilled labourers who are contractually employed etc. Disclaimer: The figures, statistics within the report are based upon the limited documentation of cases submitted to the JFWT platform or separately to MFA. It does not intend to implicate any country, government, industry, employer, etc.