Man fined for locking nine ex-colleagues in office after being fired

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He was resentful about being terminated and assumed his former colleagues were out on their lunch breaks.

SINGAPORE: A man was fined S$4,000 by a court on Monday for wrongfully confining nine ex-colleagues in an office for about an hour after padlocking the main door.

The court heard that Lim accepted a job as a driver and logistics assistant at an electronics company at Pantech Business Hub in late May 2022 and started work on Jul 1, 2022.Lim was fired on Aug 30, 2022 before completing his probation period.He planned to lock the entrance - the only door to his former workplace - as he was resentful about being terminated.

According to Lim, he assumed that his ex-colleagues were on their lunch breaks and that"probably all of them" had left the office. About 10 minutes after Lim locked the door, an employee tried to leave the office to go to the toilet, but could not.

 

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