Singapore’s Mustafa Centre to Cut Back on Foreign Workers
Seating in front of Mustafa Centre is cordoned off, in Singapore on April 20, 2020.
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A major Singapore shopping center is reportedly cutting back on workers, saying it will take longer than expected for business to return to normal amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mustafa Centre, a sprawling six-story shopping destination in the city-state’s Little India cultural district that has more than 1,400 staff and sells over 300,000 different items, is unable to renew the work passes of its foreign workers and will send them home when their passes expire, according to the Straits Times. The newspaper cited a letter addressed to all employees of Mustafa group and its related companies from managing director and founder Mustaq Ahmad.