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SINGAPORE – A dormitory operator who forcibly confined 20 workers in a locked room had been given a stern warning from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).
The workers’ employer will also be barred from hiring new foreign staff pending a police investigation, MOM said on Friday (April 24).
It said it “picked up” a Facebook post on the incident by migrant workers group Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) on Tuesday.
TWC2 said it had received a distress call about workers being locked inside a room at the Joylicious dormitory in Tuas since at least 10.30am the previous day.
Workers who wanted to leave had to ask a security guard to unlock the door, which could take 30 minutes, the group added.
“This is an unacceptable and dangerous way to do things. What if a fire breaks out in the block?” it said.
Later that day, the workers were moved to a bigger room with an attached bathroom but with the door still locked, TWC2 said in a separate post, in which it urged the authorities to act.
The police came at around 8pm and the door was opened, TWC2 said in a third Facebook post.
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