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SINGAPORE - Employees of student care provider Little Professors Learning Centre are alleging that the company has not paid them their January salaries or CPF contributions since November 2025, and have filed reports with the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management.
Several parents have also discovered that they had been double charged via GIRO deductions for their children’s February student care fees.
The company runs student care centres in at least eight primary schools, including Kranji Primary, White Sands Primary and Hong Wen School.
Based on the schools’ websites, Little Professors also provides full-day care services for children in MOE Kindergartens (KCare) which are located in five primary schools - Anchor Green, Waterway, Punggol Coast, Jing Shan and Westwood.
It also runs the student care centres for primary school pupils in these schools.
At least one of the schools, Anchor Green Primary, has since informed
affected parents through a circular on Feb 14 that it has terminated the services of Little Professors,
due to “contractual breaches by the operator”.
In the message seen by The Straits Times,
the school said it is actively working with MOE to appoint a replacement operator to run student care services. Until then, the school will provide after-school support for student care and KCare students.
Parents will not be charged for this after-school support, managed by school staff. It will include provision of food, homework supervision, and nap time for pupils.
On Feb 12, ST spoke to three Little Professors’ staff. All of them stopped working on Feb 10, after the company failed to pay their January salary which was due on Feb 7.
The staff, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said their CPF contributions were previously also delayed in September 2025, and have remain unpaid since November 2025.
One of them from the student care centre at Anchor Green Primary said she contacted the company’s huma...
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