Operator charged over living conditions such as faulty urinals, damaged walls in foreign worker dormitory

The company is accused of multiple failures related to the living conditions it provided in the dorm in January or February 2025.

These include: Failing to rectify multiple faulty urinals in a communal toilet, failing to rectify a broken squatting pan in a toilet, failing to rectify holes in damaged walls and failing to repair a hole in the corroded ceiling of a communal toilet.

According to charge sheets, there were broken floor tiles in a corridor, an exposed wiring cable left dangling from a ceiling, an exposed circuit box, a metal pole dangling from a ceiling, damaged lighting found dangling from the ceiling in the toilet of an isolation room and a broken cubicle partition in a toilet.

The company is also accused of failing to maintain a loose ceiling fan, failing to provide adequate electricity by failing to ensure a power socket was accessible in one of the rooms and failing to provide guardrails on multiple upper bunk beds.

This is an alleged breach of the licensing conditions because the company is required to provide beds of “sturdy material” that do not “compromise the resident’s basic rest”.

Charge sheets also detail a faulty ladder on a bunk bed, a metal cabinet with a defective lock that prevented the residents from having a lockable cabinet for their personal belongings, and a lack of shower curtains at a communal toilet. The company is also accused of failing to provide a mechanical fan in an isolation room.

According to the public hearing list, the company is represented by Mr Alvin Chang Jit Hua from M & A Law.

The case was adjourned to July for a further mention.

For each charge of failing to comply with conditions of the operating licence, an offender can be jailed for up to 12 months, fined up to S$50,000 (US$38,964), or both.