July 03, 2021
The listings drew flak online this past week.
ST PHOTO: YONG LI XUAN
The National Environment Agency (NEA) has asked that several job listings advertising for "tray return ambassadors" at hawker centres be removed, as no contract for these roles has been awarded yet.
This comes after cleaning and recruitment firms put up calls for the job, offering salaries of over $2,000.
Typically, government agencies put out a tender and award a contract to a company that then hires people to carry out such work.
"We would like to clarify that those listings were made by companies of their own accord, without having secured any contract with NEA. Hence, we have reached out to those companies, and requested that they take down their unsolicited listings," said the NEA in response to queries from The Straits Times.