A netizen shared how his wife was sent overseas to work for about 3 to 4 weeks, and she incurred expenses about $5,000 that she had planned to claim from the company.
However, after submitting the claims, she only received about $3,000 so far, with the remaining $2,000 yet to be paid.
The man said that his wife has kept all of the receipts and email correspondence with the company, where they had agreed to a certain payment plan to pay her back, but it was allegedly not honoured.
The startup company allegedly claimed that they were “going bust” and were letting his wife go, agreeing to pay her final salary and claims, which they had not done so.
Here is what he said
Company is not paying claims for 6 months now
Checking on behalf of my wife. Company sent my wife to the US for work for about 3-4 weeks. She had claims coming to a total of about 5K SGD. She then submitted the claims.
Within a month or two, company, which is a start-up, said they are going bust and will have to let my wife go. They agreed to pay her final salary and her claims.
They have paid about 3K so far with a balance of 2K. Company is still active and running but the boss is not responding to any texts regarding this.
Wife has kept all receipts and email comms in which they agreed to a certain payment plan they have not honoured.
Is there any avenue we can look to escalate the issue? I know 2K might not seem like much but we recently bought a house so every dollar counts.
Netizens’ comments
- Lodge a complaint with ministry of manpower. The risk of working with a startup is that the failure rate is high. So be prepared that your wife may lose some money.
- File a claims at TADM. And try to do it asap, as there are deadlines for filing a claim.
- Go to MOM with receipts