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SINGAPORE \u2013 The director of several companies that owe wages to more than 400 migrant workers has been declared bankrupt.<\/p>\n
A bankruptcy order was made against Indian national and Singapore permanent resident Ramu Palani Velu on Aug 13.<\/p>\n
He is the director of seven local companies that provide air-conditioning, plumbing and building services.<\/p>\n
They include KPA Engineering, SK Industries and VVR Plant Engineering.<\/p>\n
A total of 407 workers from these companies lodged claims for unpaid wages, with some having not been paid for more than two months.<\/p>\n
Signs of trouble began to show when five workers from KPA Engineering had, at different points in 2025, approached the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management.<\/p>\n
The cases were resolved within a week, with the workers receiving payment from their employer.<\/p>\n
But in May and June 2026, four other workers from KPA Engineering filed claims for salaries owed.<\/p>\n
The cases were in the midst of being processed when, on June 22, more than 100 workers turned up at the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) office<\/span><\/a> in Bendemeer seeking help.<\/p>\n By then, MOM was already aware of claims of unpaid salaries after having spoken to KPA Engineering employees affected by a dormitory eviction notice on June 8.<\/p>\n The authorities had been trying to contact the company\u2019s directors even before the workers approached MOM en masse on June 22.<\/p>\n As the unpaid wages case made headlines, it was revealed that Ramu had been out of the country.<\/p>\n He returned on June 26<\/span><\/a> and is assisting MOM with investigations.<\/p>\n According to records from the Ministry of Law\u2019s Insolvency Office, Ramu applied for bankruptcy on July 9.<\/p>\n AAG Corporate Advisory is listed as the trustee.<\/p>\n Employers who fail to pay salaries may face fines of between $3,000 and $15,000 per charge, and up to six months\u2019 jail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 The director of several companies that owe wages to more than 400 migrant workers has been declared bankrupt. A bankruptcy order was made…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020","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=78020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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