Saudi Oger is reported to be owing its employees, subcontractors and banks (in debt servicing only) SAR3bn (USD800mn). French employees of the company, who have not been paid in months, have sued the company in French courts, after talks between a lawyer representing 200 employees, mainly engineers and managers of the company’s projects in Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dammam, had failed. Riyadh is facing pressure from several countries on non-payment of wages to their nationals employed in its construction sector. India has already sent its state minister, Vijay Kumar Singh, to the Kingdom. Singh held negotiations last week with Saudi Labour and Social Development Minister Mufrej al-Haqabani for the return of 2,500 employees of Saudi Oger back to India. (MEED)