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Singapore's Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is investigating three linked firms after roughly 400 migrant workers reported months of unpaid wages, a case that has prompted labor advocates to push for mandatory wage-protection insurance.
The companies – KPA Engineering, SK Industries and VVR Plant Engineering—share a registered office and a common director.
More than 100 workers first gathered at MOM's Bendemeer services centre on June 22, after discovering KPA Engineering's office had been vacated since September 2025, according to The Online Citizen. The number of affected workers grew to roughly 400 within two days.
Ng Hwei Min, general manager of the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TADM), said TADM and MOM were reaching out to the employers and "allowing the workers to change their employer, so that they can seek new employment, should they want to, while we address their situation." She added that MOM "will take the necessary and appropriate enforcement action against the companies should they be found to have breached any of the employment laws."
Corporate records show the companies' director, Ramu Palani Velu, a Singapore permanent resident, registered three additional firms on a single day in 2025 and acquired a fourth in November of that year, expanding a network now spanning seven entities. National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) secretary-general Ng Chee Meng...
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