Operator of foreign worker dorms fined $118,000 after some rooms found to be filthy

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SINGAPORE - Labourtel Management Corporation, a company that runs foreign worker dormitories, was fined $118,000 on Friday (Sept 18) after the authorities inspected four of them and found that some rooms were filthy.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - Labourtel Management Corporation, a company that runs foreign worker dormitories, was fined $118,000 on Friday after the authorities inspected four of them and found that some rooms were filthy.

One of its officers, Shaik Mohamed Mohamed Abdul Jaleel, 34, was fined $22,000. He will be jailed for 73 days if he fails to pay the fine. Labourtel, which was convicted of seven charges, had failed to fully comply with licensing conditions and improve the dormitories despite being advised by the Ministry of Manpower after earlier inspections.

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