The Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (Tafep) said on October 29 that they have reached out to the employer of the man who was not allowed by his manager to visit his dying father one last time.
The employer apologised to the man several months after the incident.
The man, Syed Ahmad Sabar Aljoofri, first shared on the Facebook group Complaint Singapore about how he was denied the opportunity to say his last goodbye to his dying father by his employer.
He shared that he first received a call on December 23 last year at around 9.40am from a doctor at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, imploring him to rush to the hospital immediately as his father was unresponsive but still alive.
Mr Ahmad then told his operations manager about his situation, but he was told that he was only able to be released at 4pm.
Mr Ahmad, at the third time of asking (at 11.30am), was finally allowed to leave.
But he received a call at 11.42am, whilst en route to the hospital, that his father had died.
To make matters worse, Mr Ahmad was then fired from his job a week after his father’s death for “taking many days of leave” which they “deemed to be unapproved”.
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