A confidential report regarding the Management of Foreign Workers, prepared by an independent committee and initially withheld from public access in early 2019, has now surfaced on the Human Resources Ministry’s website without any formal declaration of its declassification.

Sources in the ministry revealed that 'The Report of the Independent Committee on the Management of Foreign Workers' was published on Oct 13 with the government appearing to have yielded to repeated calls for its declassification over the years.

The latest and most significant call to declassify the report came this May, from the members of the committee itself who pointed out that the problems and issues identified by...