no offence but i do have my own appreciation of the situation. so its ok to bomb, pillage and plunder other places except europe? please spare me the double standard as what the westerners are doing.

and i do know well how to behave "in here" so to speak. im not a novice within this forum nor thread.
yup, thats what we all facing now. every time a bid comes in, the expectations on the price were going to quote gets stopped halfway haha. the usual discount then the other usual discount and price slashed. i've read one strong statement from a linkedin user, its time for service vendors all to stop cut throating each other and do a united front in maintaining a price hike(within reasonable figures tho). But will this materialise within any service provider.

for MISC no.
They are paying quite well previously.

Maybe you are paid well.   
Have a few went there from underpaid companies and got a good raise
Note their current project is moving from engineering and procruement to construction phase.

Did you go through agent or direct

I had a bad time also working with sapura about 3-4 years ago for the 98-2 project...alot of outstanding payments not paid..their project team even sit in my office but rental 6 months didn't pay..eventually chase them out...project stalled and top management got involve. I wonder how this company even operate? Really bad image for our O&G industry

Cannot be considered as 1 umbrella

As theres probity / compliance issues on this particular subject. Only SOMV / SEB has this potential conflict but it was managed properly.

That's why I facepalm when their management said due to COVID> this issue started from before COVID already for many years.
Especially their vendors never paid on time and have to resort to stop work / stop delivery to obtain some payment

Reason commonly given to vendors: "HQ" processing payment

all stuck at state gomen approval i think. submitted since 4th q last year and still waiting and waiting...

Exactly, good question.
How did this happen for so long
Do you know wht exactly projects they had  / doing?

As their clients are all mysterious names with almost zero or close to zero websites , let alone address.

S..... offer optional sabbatical leave to their staff.
Salary 3 months 40 percent of basic salary and next 3 months 20 percent of basic salary.
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More like they don't care anymore about the company, with mergers, money coming in, the number one thing in their mind is to cash out from the sinking ship, not saving it or they just don't know how to.
As the usual word we hear, no sense of "ownership". lol

MMCOG kan Syed Bukhory yang punya hewhewhew

No leave, MC, EPF, etc., are compensated by adding the equivalent amount into daily rate or monthly rate.

And taxation is handled by the POer, as a company. This is where the “benefit” of being on PO basis is. 🤭