17/03/2021 How did 5,000 salary claims a year become 1,400 over five years? – TWC2 From Table 2, we can see that in 2018 and 2019 — the two complete years — foreign workers led over 5,000 salary claims a year. This is far cry from Tan See Leng’s gure of 1,400 affected foreign workers over a ve-year period. Foreign worker salary claims made up over 60 percent of all salary claims led at TADM during those two years. As we all know, foreign workers do not make up over As at 31 December 2018, 60 percent of Singapore’s MOM’s table (accessed 8 labour force, so the volume of March 2021) showed their salary claims is 1,132,200 foreigners with disproportionate. There are various sorts of work statistics from MOM about the passes, including size of the local and foreign Employment Passes workforces, but it is also (though the vast majority possible to derive from Table were Work Permit 1 itself what those base holders). As at 31 numbers were. December 2019, the gure was 1,165,600. Rows 27 to 32 of Table 2 show the derived estimates, which From a different table, we are pretty close to what MOM see that the resident has published separately (see labour force (citizens and yellow box). permanent residents) totalled 2,292,700 In short, foreign employees make up about a third of total employees, but led over 60% of salary claims in midyear 2018 and 2,328,500 midyear 2019. Why are some gures mid-year and some gures end-year? Who knows? 2018 and 2019. An interesting factoid can also be found in a Channel NewsAsia story dated 11 October 2019 (link). It said: Claims led by foreign employees also involved larger salary arrears. The typical duration of unpaid wage claims by foreign employees was twc2.org.sg/2021/03/08/how-did-5000-salary-claims-a-year-become-1400-over-five-years/?fbclid=IwAR3ndC6fHNpfjRFmcV9VKV2f4_D0-B5MyB… 5/8