Two managers fined for false declaration in online database
Posted: 06 March 2012 1843 hrs
SINGAPORE: A general manager and site manager were convicted on Tuesday for making false declarations in the Online Foreign Worker Address System.
38-year-old general manager Lim Jiun Wei was fined S$40,000 for falsely declaring the residential addresses of four foreign workers, while 32-year-old site manager Wan Kar Hou Francis was also fined S$40,000 for intentionally aiding Lim in making these false declarations by providing false residential addresses.
This is the first time the Ministry of Manpower has prosecuted corporate individuals for false declaration in the online system.
An MOM statement said both Lim and Wan had committed the offence blatantly, in full knowledge that their workers were actually housed in rubbish bin centres since they started working in Singapore.
MOM said in July 2010, officers inspected several rubbish bin centres, and subsequently found foreign workers living there. Investigations revealed that the workers living in the rubbish bin centres were working for Eng Leng Contractors Pte Ltd.
Eng Leng was subsequently fined S$10,000 last December for failing to provide acceptable accommodation for its foreign workers. Now, both Lim and Wan have also been taken to task for the offences committed.
Under the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Pass) Regulations, employers are required to register and update their foreign workers' residential addresses in the online system within five days after the commencement of the workers' employment in Singapore, or after each change of the workers' residential addresses.
Anyone with information on such offences can call the MOM hotline at 6438-5122 or email [email protected] to provide information.
-CNA/ac
