Singapore to further relax movement restrictions for migrant workers

Key aspects about the relaxed restrictions

• The migrant workers of Singapore need not have a special permission to step out of their dormitories
• The authorities have eventually relaxed the restrictions and introduced a scheme which will allow them to apply for special “exit passes” to visit specific areas
• Singapore still requires them to apply for permission to visit four famous locations on all public holidays and Sundays, with 80,000 passes available everyday

Overview:

Authorities have eventually relaxed the restrictions, allowing them to visit specially built “recreation centers,” and introduced a scheme that will enable them to apply for special “exit passes” to see specific areas.

Main Features:

The flourishing city-state of South Asia has almost 300,000 migrant workers who live in dorms, are typically given shared rooms, and sleep on bunk beds.

After two years of the pandemic restrictions, the migrant workers of Singapore need not have special permission to step out of their dormitories. But the campaigners have denounced to continue some “discriminatory” restrictions.

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The broad complexes, hit by the pandemic, cast a rare spotlight on what the activists mentioned about the poor living conditions of the low-paid workers.

For most individuals living in Singapore, strict movement restrictions existed for a short period. Still, they stayed longer for the migrant workers in their dorms, except to work or run errands.

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Authorities have eventually relaxed the restrictions, allowing them to visit specially built “recreation centers,” and introduced a scheme that will enable them to apply for special “exit passes” to see specific areas.

The employed workers in industries like maintenance and construction need not have passes to leave their dorms.

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But with strictly controlled authorities, Singapore still requires them to apply for permission to visit four famous locations on all public holidays and Sundays, with 80,000 passes available daily. The measure is to control “potential high football” in those areas, a labor ministry spokesperson told AFP.

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A local group supporting migrant workers invited an end to the exit pass requirement but relaxed the remaining restrictions as “discriminatory,” mentioned Desiree Leong from the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics.

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