A training provider has sued SkillsFuture Singapore for not paying out more than $1.4m in grants, after the government agency terminated its contract to provide funding for the courses the company had conducted.
It offers training to employees of companies which pay a small fraction of the full training fee. It would then apply to SSG for a grant to cover the remaining fee.The agency provides funding to subsidise the costs of conducting and attending eligible training courses.It said it terminated the contract after its investigations into the company’s training practices revealed discrepancies that could not merely be dismissed as “administrative errors” or “minor inaccuracies”.
The agency has also counterclaimed against CBLD to claw back about $793,000 in grants it had earlier disbursed to the company.In 2007, the company entered into a SkillsConnect contract with SSG, for the agency to award training grants to CBLD. On Oct 16, 2020, the agency served a notice on the company, stating its intention to terminate the contract.
One trainee said she did not attend any training nor did she sign any of the attendance sheets but felt pressured to sign a declaration that she attended the courses. CBLD, which is represented by Mr Keith Hsu of Emerald Law, argued that the termination was wrongful as the company had not breached this clause.