Impossible to comply with workers’ housing law, claim trade groups


Bernard Saw

Companies often rent low-cost housing for foreign workers and cramping as many bodies in as possible. This is one of the reasons behind several clusters linked to foreign workers. – AFP pic, December 14, 2020.

INDUSTRIES do not have the financial means to improve housing for foreign workers as required under a new law, said trade groups.

The situation was bad even before that Covid-19 pandemic and worsened now with the continuing spread of the virus, they said.


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