First Instance judge, with two other appointees, to “fast-track” dispute resolution. The jurisdiction of these committees Training includes the application of labour law and employment Volunteers contracts. Parties dissatis ed by a committee’s ruling can WICA & medical appeal to the Court of Appeal within 15 days. While a websearch uncovers a fair amount of literature about insurance WICA validity how the committees are supposed to work, there is far less reporting on how they actually work, how effectve they are and what are the real wait times for resolution. Therefore it is not possible to attempt any comparison with Singapore’s system that involves mediation overseen by the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management and adjudication by the Employment Claims Tribunal. Workers’ Support and Insurance Fund Also established by law in 2018, the Workers’ Support and Insurance Fund only became operational in 2020. Its purpose is to pay workers what they are owed when they have won their claims through the Labour Dispute Settlement Committees but still remain unpaid because the employer has gone out of business or been closed due to illegality. The Fund will later seek to reclaim the payments from the employer and the money so obtained will be added to the Fund’s resources. At least, that’s the plan. However, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) (August 2020), out of fteen migrant workers interviewed by HRW and who had taken their cases to Labour Dispute Settlement Committees, fourteen were yet to be paid their dues, through the fund or otherwise. More crucially, the Fund needs to have a steady source of revenue; it cannot depend on reclaiming payments from defunct employers. TWC2 has made similar proposals for Singapore over the years, albeit under varying names. As far back as 2013, we proposed a “Foreign Workers Assistance Fund” in Proposals submitted for “second phase” employment legislation review to assist “workers left high and dry because their employers have disappeared or gone bankrupt.” Work safety