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Earlier this week, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) said they have found 150 job vacancies for the affected workers. Labour chief Ng Chee Meng said on Friday that more opportunities have since emerged.<\/p>\n
“We have received interest from over 80 companies with close to 400 vacancies, and our unions are sending in more referrals,” Mr Ng said in a Facebook post, adding that job placements will begin next week.<\/p>\n
About 400 workers with unpaid wages are also eligible for S$200 in cash and vouchers to help with daily expenses, provided they sign up as MWC members.<\/p>\n
Authorities are relocating the workers to a single lodging facility to better coordinate support, Mr Ng said. The Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management was also on-site on Friday to help workers lodge salary claims.<\/p>\n
“We will make sure no one is left behind in this process,” he added.<\/p>\n
More than 100 workers employed by KPA Engineering and SK Industries had earlier turned up at the Ministry of Manpower\u2019s service centre at Bendemeer seeking help after going unpaid for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their employers are believed to be out of the country.<\/p>\n
Public records showed that one of the directors of KPA Engineering, Singapore permanent resident Ramu Palani Velu, <\/strong>is also a director at SK Industries. He is listed as a director for five other companies in Singapore, including VVR Plant Engineering, which also has workers who have gone unpaid for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n CNA has contacted Mr Ramu’s companies for comment, but has not received a response.<\/p>\n For many, finding a new job is the immediate priority.<\/p>\n Mr Subramanium Ajithkumar had just returned from a job interview at another construction firm when CNA met him at his dormitory in Tuas.<\/p>\n He said his work permit, originally due to expire in June, had been extended by a month by KPA Engineering without his knowledge.<\/p>\n When asked why, he said his boss told him that there was still some work to be done.<\/p>\n “He said there was some urgent work and asked me to support for about a month, and the company will prepare the salary for me for that month,” said Mr Ajithkumar.<\/p>\n The promise went unfulfilled when his employer became uncontactable soon after.<\/p>\n The new company is willing to hire him, Mr Ajithkumar said, but he must wait for his current permit to expire in early July.<\/p>\n “But the company has asked me to find out what the procedures are from MOM’s side. Will they accept if the company applies for an (In-Principle Approval) letter,” said Mr Ajithkumar.<\/p>\n According to the MOM website, companies require an In-Principle Approval (IPA) to bring migrant workers into Singapore. Employers will receive an IPA letter when their workers’ work permit applications are approved.<\/p>\n Mr Ajithkumar estimates that about 90 per cent of the affected workers are looking for jobs and do not intend to return home.<\/p>\n Among them is Mr Ramasamy Ganesan, who has already secured a job with another construction company.<\/p>\n “We were going to work until Saturday, then we stopped on Sunday \u2026 Immediately after that, I applied to another company,” he said, adding that he had previously worked at the firm he applied to.<\/p>\n He, too, is waiting for the IPA letter to be ready and approved.<\/p>\n Others, like Mr Haque Md Aynul, are pinning their hopes on the job vacancies identified by the labour movement and the migrants’ rights group.<\/p>\n The 54-year-old first came to Singapore for work in 2000 before going back to Bangladesh in 2018. He returned to Singapore after a failed business venture and had been with KPA Engineering for about six months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Earlier this week, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) said they have found 150 job vacancies for the affected…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--bwTUGCu_--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/06\/24\/1000207862.jpg?itok=Q0GyLlZ3","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1683,469,25486,6182,11087,671,8168,12172,9018,4041],"class_list":["post-64004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-anxious","tag-home","tag-hunts","tag-job","tag-migrant","tag-mull","tag-returning","tag-unpaid","tag-wages","tag-workers","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SEARCH FOR JOBS<\/h2>\n
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