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Ali Barkat holding a written judgement, in which the Employment Claims Tribunals has ordered his employer Tiong Huat Projects to pay him $6,500 out of the $12,396 that he has claimed as unpaid wages.
ST PHOTO: ALVIN HO
Two weeks after Bangladeshi construction worker Ali Barkat came to Singapore to work in April last year, his wife gave birth to a baby girl.
The 32-year-old is determined to make up for missing the birth of his first child by earning enough money here to provide for his family.
