Sin Chew Jit Poh, 3 Aug 2011Labour-starved and densely populated Singapore employs around 900,000 guest workers like Mohammad and has strict laws against those staying beyond their allotted time, generating business for repatriation companies like UTR Services.
Such firms, which get paid around Sg$250 ($200) per case, have drawn criticism from human rights groups who accuse them of resorting to unsavoury methods to force workers to board flights home.
"Repatriation companies use force, violence and illegally confine workers against their will," said Jolovan Wham, executive director of Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME). Full story
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