WP's He Ting Ru: Need to do more to keep migrant workers safe in transit to and from work - The Independent Singapore News

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Workers’ Party MP He Ting Ru (Sengkang GRC) brought up the issue of road safety for migrant workers being ferried to and from work. She writes in a March 15 Facebook post that the improvements recently rolled out do “not go far enough”. because it still means that migrant workers aren’t This long-standing issue in …

injured more than a dozen workers and killed two men. Both accidents involved lorries transporting migrant workers.

New rules to ensure that the drivers of the lorries are well rested will be introduced by the Ministry of Manpower, particularly those who also have work onsite. “Migrant workers will continue to be ferried in lorries, which exposes them to significantly higher levels of danger when travelling on the road,” she added.additional financial burdens to an industry already badly affected by the pandemic.

 

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