This was after 25 business organisations in Singapore warned that banning firms from transporting workers at the back of lorries would lead to"real, practical and operational complexities".
Many of the readers did not buy the businesses' claims that a ban would lead to traffic jams. They argued that employers should simply transport the workers using private buses and accept lower profits if it means improving worker safety. Another said on CNA’s Facebook page: “So the migrant workers are not worthy of being safer? How unethical. They are as human as we are.”
One other comment went: “The current practice of allowing a worker to drive the lorry carrying 20 to 40 workers in the second lane of the expressway, swerving from one lane to another at 70km to 80km per hour .