Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Singapore (Ratification: 1965)

The Committee notes that no report has been received from the Government. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

The Committee has noted the information supplied by the Government concerning conditions of work in prison workshops under the Public Sector Participation Scheme operated by the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE). It has also noted the Prisons (Employment) Regulations (Chapter 247, section 84, of the Prisons Act) annexed to the report. The Committee again requests the Government to supply, with its next report, copies of the latest updated texts of the Prisons’ Act and Prisons’ Rules.