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SINGAPORE – Labourtel Management Corporation, a company that manages dormitories for foreign workers, was fined $ 118,000 on Friday (September 18) after authorities inspected four of them and found that some rooms were dirty.
During inspections in 2018 and last year, two of the facilities were also found to have problems, including damaged lights, faulty lockers and a damaged toilet bowl.
Parvis Ahmed Mohamed Ghouse, 43, a director of Labourtel at the time of the checks, was fined $ 59,000 on Friday. You will have to spend 195 days behind bars if you cannot pay the amount.
One of its officers, Shaik Mohamed Mohamed Abdul Jaleel, 34, was fined $ 22,000. You will be jailed for 73 days if you don’t pay the fine.
Labourtel Management Corporation, which is part of property and logistics solutions company MES Group, and the two Singaporeans pleaded guilty in March to the charges under the Foreign Employee Dormitory Act.
They were the first to be convicted under the Act, which entered into force in January 2016.
Two of the company’s facilities, Jurong Penjuru Dormitory 1 and 2, are located on Penjuru Place, near West Coast Road.
The other two are Blue Stars Dormitory on Kian Teck Lane, near Boon Lay Way, and The Leo on Kaki Bukit Road 3.
Labourtel, who was convicted on seven counts, did not fully comply with the conditions of the license and did not upgrade the bedrooms despite having been advised by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) after previous inspections.
As part of the conditions, the licensee must maintain cleanliness in the bedrooms. You must also keep the interior and exterior of all buildings, such as doors, windows, and sanitary fixtures, in good repair.
Jurong Penjuru Bedroom 1 was inspected in May 2018 and 27 rooms were found to be filthy with greasy cooking areas, among other issues.
Similar problems were also found in the other three bedrooms in other inspections in late 2018 and last year.
Parvis was convicted of four counts under the law. His role was to oversee the day-to-day operations of Jurong Penjuru’s Bedrooms 1 and 2, as well as the Blue Stars Bedroom.
He was also responsible for labor, security, cleaning, maintenance, and equipment procurement for the three facilities.
It had also neglected its duty to rectify the breach of the license conditions.
Shaik, whose role was to take over the signing of the lease contracts between Labourtel and the various employers of the foreign workers staying in Jurong Penjuru’s Bedroom 1, pleaded guilty in March to one charge under the law.
He had violated the license conditions on the allowed number of occupants in the bedroom.
The court heard that during an inspection on May 31, 2018, officers from the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) found that two parts of the dormitory had more people than allowed. For example, the fifth level of Block 56 allowed 252 occupants. However, the number of tenants hired there, according to the leases, was 268.
The SCDF also found 304 beds there.
The company could have been fined up to $ 50,000 for each charge.
For each count, the men could have been jailed for up to one year and fined up to $ 50,000.
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