MOM: Workers’ dormitories required to raise standards by 2030

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Workers will have more space to themselves. The dormitories also have to upgrade other facilities with one set of toilets, shower and wash basin

SINGAPORE: About 1,000 purpose-built and factory-converted dormitories will have to provide better living conditions for migrant workers by 2030, the Ministry of Manpower announced on Tuesday .

Each dormitory room should have up to 12 residents; a one-metre gap is recommended between beds. These are part of the interim standards, which must be implemented under the Dormitory Transition Scheme by 2030.There is no restriction on the number of residents in a room and no spacing requirement. But MOM said in 2021 that “in practice”, most dormitory rooms had 12 to 16 residents.

 

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