Appeal panel convened for two sacked SMRT employees
SINGAPORE — SMRT has set up a panel to review an appeal against its decision to sack two of its employees who were involved in a fatal track accident in March, it said on Monday (Sept 26).
SCDF officers extricate a body on the scene of the train accident at Pasir Ris MRT station which left two SMRT staff dead. TODAY file photo
SINGAPORE — SMRT has set up a panel to review an appeal against its decision to sack two of its employees who were involved in a fatal track accident in March, it said on Monday (Sept 26).
The panel comprises senior management from business units not from its Trains Group, it said.
“The panel will review the appeal, and ensure fair and due process. Its findings will not prejudice the ongoing investigations by the various authorities,” said SMRT, which added that it will work with the National Transport Workers Union (NTWU) to secure employment for the two affected workers while the panel reviews the case.
The NTWU had filed the appeal with the rail operator on Sept 19 after news of the sackings broke earlier this month. The train driver in the March 22 tragedy near Pasir Ris MRT Station, Mr Rahmat Mohd, 49, was one of those dismissed. In that accident, two trainees – Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari, 24, and Nasrulhudin Najamudin, 26 – were killed by an oncoming train while on their way, as part of a team of 15, to check on a warning signal from a monitoring device.
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