The Association of Licensed Recruitment Agencies to Singapore (Alras) on Saturday declared a self-imposed moratorium on deploying Household Service Workers (HSWs) to Singapore beginning September 2.

Lucy Sermonia, president of Alras, said that the deployment of HSWs to Singapore will be suspended to convince some association members to abide by the HSW reform package on “non-collection” of placement fees.

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