Foreign workers don’t have it so good in Singapore.
On 30 March 2010, the body of Chelladurai Lenin, 42, was dumped along Upper Changi Road after he had died from head injuries – a fractured skull and internal bleeding in the head after falling from a construction site, wrote The Straits Times (ST).
His employer, furniture repair business owner Tay Kok Eng, 56, was
charged on Thursday with dumping the body, as well as illegally hiring
Lenin at his company, Midas Maintenance and Services, the paper said.
The
news report stated that Lenin, who was from Chennai and had a wife and
three children, died after refusing medical treatment as he would have
been deported for being an illegal worker.
Tay faces a maximum of
six months in jail and a S$2,000 fine for illegally dumping of a
corpse, as well as another six months to two years of jail and another
S$6,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker.
The foreign worker
demand in Singapore is continually rising, especially in the
construction sector, with the Housing Development Board (HDB) slated to
release another 25,000 more BTO flats this year.
In a
parliamentary report, Minister of National Development, Khaw Boon Wan,
said that HDB needed about 18,000 construction workers for its building
programme last year.
This is expected to increase to about
30,000 to meet this year’s building programme. As each building
programme will take three to five years to complete, the cumulative
requirement of construction workers could rise to 45,000 within the next
few years.
-- Yahoo!
This is not the first time, foreign workers dead body are dumped.
I wonder if there are undiscovered cases.
Originally posted by mancha:This is not the first time, foreign workers dead body are dumped.
I wonder if there are undiscovered cases.
maybe they are emblemed in cemet?
Buried under you HDB?
dump also donlt know how to dump properly. must dig a good deep hole and bury - like that he also go no records here illegal can cover up for life - silly. got brain to do business no brain for this type of simple job closure