HRW : Singapore `` should be embarrassed '' about record on domestic worker rights . The report says that the government has failed to protect workers from abuse and exploitation in its care homes for migrant workers. Survey shows only 12 % of city-state 's foreign domestic workers have a day off a week . `` They 're being paid so little that they ca n't even afford to take off that one day a week , '' Varia says , adding , `` A lot of them are doing this to survive and to support their families back home . '' Fierce resistance from employers to calls for legislated days off .
HRW : Singapore `` should be embarrassed '' about record on domestic worker rights . The report says that the government has failed to protect workers from abuse and exploitation in its care homes for migrant workers. Survey shows only 12 % of city-state 's foreign domestic workers have a day off a week . Fierce resistance from employers to calls for legislated days off .