SunShyGal

Cleaning company booked for housing workers in toilet




Further investigations showed that the workers cooked, ate and slept in the toilet. -- PHOTO: MOM

A CLEANING company was convicted of failing to provide acceptable accommodation for its foreign workers.
Maint-Kleen was fined $7,500 on Tuesday for housing its workers in a public toilet in Waterloo Street.

Acting on a tip-off, the Manpower Ministry (MOM) raided the premises and found four workers living in the toilet.

Further investigations showed that they cooked, ate and slept there.

MOM said that it is the first time that it has prosecuted an employer for such an offence.

The Ministry added that it has stepped up its enforcement actions against employers who house their workers under conditions that endanger the latter's safety and health.

Between January and May this year, 116 employers were found to have provided unacceptable housing for their foreign workers.

Of these, 18 were fined and the others were issued warning letters.

The premises used to house foreign workers must be approved by Government agencies that include the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the National Environment Agency (NEA).

MOM also said in the statement that employers who breach their duties to properly house their workers will be fined up to $5,000 or jailed for six months or both.

SunShyGal

so no human rights sia .. poor workers ...
can't imagine me sleeping in the toilets .. yucks ...

lkarren

ironic leh, cleaning company houses workers in public toilet in Waterloo Street. :handsup:

uyen

Many of the foreign workers who work as clearners or construction sites are badly treated by their bosses.

人情味不是偏私而是博爱，

不是施舍而是关怀。

不是表面的礼貌，

而是内心的尊重。

Friends will bail you out of jail.but Best Friends will be sitting by you saying,
" that was awesome !"

wenchong1985

what to do? earn money more important what, as the government encourage...

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genzo2106

really feek disgusted at the employers for making the workers live in such conditions..:disgust2: :disgust2:

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derelicte

I think the only way to punish the employers is to have them stay at the exact same toilet....
Let them have a feel of what the workers had been feeling. Sigh, sad to see S'porean behaving in such manner..

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