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SINGAPORE – About $600,000 was paid out from the Government’s short-term relief fund to 260 workers who went unpaid after their employers were liquidated between 2023 and 2025, Manpower Minister Tan See Leng said on Jan 13.
The fund, which is managed by the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management, is intended for employers who “truly cannot pay their salary arrears due to business failure”, said Dr Tan.
However, companies that “wilfully do not pay salaries despite having the means to do so” will be investigated and face action for breaching employment laws when they wind up, he warned.
Dr Tan was responding to parliamentary questions from Workers’ Party MP Gerald Giam (Aljunied GRC)…