The authorities here took about 60 people to task from 2016 to 2020 for failing to provide safe working conditions for their maids while they were cleaning windows. MOM said those implicated included employers and their household members. It added that they were warned, issued with composition fines or prosecuted, depending on the severity of the case. The ministry was responding to queries from ST on the 26-year-old Indonesian maid who died in hospital after being found at the bottom of a block of flats near Hougang MRT on Mar 29. She is believed to have been cleaning windows when she fell. MOM said that it is investigating the incident. The ministry added that it takes a serious view of employers who fail to provide safe working conditions for migrant domestic workers (MDWs). Mr Shamsul Kamar, executive director of the Centre for Domestic Employees, said: “We believe that domestic workers have been amply briefed on how to work safely during their compulsory settling-in programme.”... Continue Reading