Pinoy Cuisine's owners fined for employment offences
By Khushwant Singh
Two partners of a restaurant were fined $5,000 each on Tuesday for making a false declaration to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).
Jackson Tan, 44, also known as Muhammad Rafiq Tan Abdullah and Canares Lualhati Sikat pleaded guilty in a district court to engaging in a common intention to falsely declare information to the Ministry of Manpower in a work pass application. Another charge of employing a foreigner without a valid work pass was taken into consideration by the judge.
Tan, a Singaporean and Canares, a Filipino national, are partners of the Pinoy Cuisine restaurant along East Coast Road
Investigations revealed that they paid an employment pass holder a monthly salary of only $1,600 from Jan 7, 2011 to Feb 7, 2012. However, they lied to MOM that the monthly salary was $2,500 to satisfy the salary criteria for work pass applications. Canares signed the declaration form while Tan was the one who submitted it to MOM. They had also employed another foreigner to work in their restaurant as a waiter without a valid work pass from Dec 10, 2011 to Feb 7, 2012.
Two partners of a restaurant were fined $5,000 each on Tuesday for making a false declaration to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).
Jackson Tan, 44, also known as Muhammad Rafiq Tan Abdullah and Canares Lualhati Sikat pleaded guilty in a district court to engaging in a common intention to falsely declare information to the Ministry of Manpower in a work pass application. Another charge of employing a foreigner without a valid work pass was taken into consideration by the judge.
Tan, a Singaporean and Canares, a Filipino national, are partners of the Pinoy Cuisine restaurant along East Coast Road
Investigations revealed that they paid an employment pass holder a monthly salary of only $1,600 from Jan 7, 2011 to Feb 7, 2012. However, they lied to MOM that the monthly salary was $2,500 to satisfy the salary criteria for work pass applications. Canares signed the declaration form while Tan was the one who submitted it to MOM. They had also employed another foreigner to work in their restaurant as a waiter without a valid work pass from Dec 10, 2011 to Feb 7, 2012.
