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SINGAPORE: An operator has been charged over the conditions of a foreign worker dormitory in Sungei Kadut, which was found to have faulty urinals, holes in the walls and no shower curtains in a communal toilet.<\/p>\n
KT&T Engineers and Constructors faces more than 20 charges under the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act for alleged failures to comply with its licensing conditions.<\/p>\n
The company, which belongs to the KT&T Group of Companies, returned to court for a further mention of the case on Thursday (Jun 4).<\/p>\n
According to the charges, KT&T Engineers and Constructors had a Class 3 Provisional Licence to run a foreign employee dormitory at 31 Sungei Kadut Avenue.<\/p>\n
A Class 3 Provisional Licence allows operators to run dorms with 300 to 999 occupants, according to the Ministry of Manpower’s website.<\/p>\n
The company is accused of multiple failures related to the living conditions it provided in the dorm in January or February 2025.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
According to the public hearing list, the company is represented by Mr Alvin Chang Jit Hua from M & A Law.<\/p>\n
The case was adjourned to July for a further mention.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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